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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
That's a creative approximation with useful implications, but the truth is that AWG isn't defined that way. Instead ...
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Accurate and well-reasoned, as always, Tristan. You caught me.
(Note to readers: Tristan doesn't miss much during a robot inspection, either).
As I get older, it is getting harder to be an apologist for ANSI units and related engineering anachronisms. My high school chemistry teacher had me convinced that SI would soon catch on in the US. That was in the mid 1970s. Still waiting ...
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since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)