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If you estimate the radius of the pencil point, and you know the maximum
E field before an arc can occur in air, then you can easily estimate the
charge on the pencil point. Alternately, having previously shown that
about 1 in 100,000 surface sites on the tape is charged, you could make
a reasonable estimate of the charge on the pencil point.