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Re: mist maker

At 9:19 AM -0700 5/17/00, Leigh Palmer wrote:


>Those of us who labor under the impression that one electron carries
>only 1.6 E -10 coulombs of charge get a rather larger value of sigma
>when it is expressed in electrons / meter^2.

Chuck got the mantissa for SI and the characteristic for cgs.

e = 1.6 E -19 C

e = 4.8 E -10 esu

it's AMAZING what a thick-fingered typo can result in. I
haven't even DREAMED of esu's in this current lifetime!

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