> Casper hit me with my HP calculator .. thus
>
>> I think you meant 0.850mm (850 micron), not 850cm :-)
>>
Worse.
>bash-3.00$ bc
>scale=9
>299792458000 <-- c cm/sec
mm/sec
>1*10^9
>1000000000
>299792458000/1000000000
>299.792458000 <-- 299 cm at 1 GHz
>299.792458000/100
>2.997924580 <-- 2.99 cm at 100 GHz
>2.997924580/3.5
>0.856549880 <-- 0.857 cm
mm, not cm.
Just another factor of 10....
Light travels 30 cm each nanosecond (in vacuum).
it's worse in silicon. (2/3rds?)
Casper
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