Average voltage from a wall socket is called the root mean square.
  Square every number to get 1, 1, 9 and 25 then take the square root of 3.
The average should be 2 but the root mean square average is 3.

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/PY106/Resistance.html

Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/29/06 3:46 PM >>>
somewhere in the remote parts of my gray matter  when calculating resistance i 
keep getting a nudge to remind me to do
something with the square root of 3

anybody ? :))

ken

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