> >> 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
thats the beginning of the whole screw up I think. Now I recall why it was just easier to leave everything in meters, kilo's and Newtons and then do the final normalization of units at the end. >>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?) I wonder how the world of supercondunctors and nano-tube technology changes the whole landscape. What if they were not using electricity at all but are working on an optical based chip? That may change everything. Who knows. I am still waiting for HAL 9000 to arrive minus the nasty habit of killing off people that won't play chess. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
