\begin{funcdesc}{rms}{fragment, width}
Return the root-mean-square of the fragment, i.e.
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-the square root of the quotient of the sum of all squared sample value,
-divided by the sumber of samples.
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-\else
-% in eqn: sqrt { sum S sub i sup 2 over n }
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\sqrt{\frac{\sum{{S_{i}}^{2}}}{n}}
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This is a measure of the power in an audio signal.
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