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Re: consistent, overdetermined facts



At 20:30 8/20/00 -0400, Hugh Logan wrote in a scholarly tour de force:
/major snip of nearly all the good stuff/

Admittedly, determining the electronic charge from experimental
and estimated values of Avogadro's number and the Faraday is not
as precise and accurate as Millikan's method

/snip/
Hugh Logan
Retired physics teacher


My evil twin brother claims that Millican's determination was not
as precise and accurate as "Millikan's Method" either.
He relied on a macroscopic viscosity model which was not quite
overdetermined enough, he mutters.



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!