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Re: Our 'humiliating' mistakes.



On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Leigh Palmer wrote:

The capacitance of a conducting sphere (against the sphere at infinity)
is equal to its radius. The radius of Earth is about 6378 km which is
about 0.6 farad, since one cm is about one pF.

A perfect example, eh? ;-)

(Sorry; couldn't resist. No sniping intended!)

John
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