Spectralshape~ @unit 1 question

The @unit 1 outputs log frequencies as floating point MIDI if I understand correctly.
In the help patch under ‘logarithmic scale’ I see that on the frequency output ‘mtof’ is used, which makes sense. The spread is also expressed in Hz, but no mtof is used?

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What is the reasoning behind? Thanks.

because both are in semitone. the first has a reference (69 = 440) but the second hasn’t: it is a range. So if you got 60 10 as those 2 values it would be +/- 10 semitones around 60 to describe the weighted mean and its standard deviation, or the peak of the gaussian curve and its width.

thanks