On 11/4/2024 11:26 AM, William Prescott wrote:
Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the
signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this from
a couple searches in DuckDuckGo. Light in fiber is probably closer to the
vacuum speed of lig
On 11/4/2024 1:56 PM, William Prescott wrote:
I should have read more carefully before replying. Are you (Michael) responding
to the electron speed or the signal speed. The signal travels much faster than
an individual electron. The analogy I read was to think of a tube filled with
marbles mov
I'm thinking I need to place a call to Maxwell...
> On 11/04/2024 10:56 AM PST William Prescott wrote:
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> I should have read more carefully before replying. Are you (Michael)
> responding to the electron speed or the signal speed. The signal travels much
> faster than an individual elect
And I believe Adm. Hopper would have been thinking in terms of signal speed,
since that is what is relavent in terms on computers.
At Mon, 4 Nov 2024 12:56:17 -0600 William Prescott
wrote:
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> I should have read more carefully before replying. Are you (Michael)
> responding to the electron s
I should have read more carefully before replying. Are you (Michael) responding
to the electron speed or the signal speed. The signal travels much faster than
an individual electron. The analogy I read was to think of a tube filled with
marbles moving through it. A marble drops out of the end mu
I didn't check the calculations. I believe you.
On 4 Nov 2024, at 12:09, Stephen M. Butler wrote:
On 11/4/24 08:26, William Prescott wrote:
> Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the
> signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this
>
On 11/4/24 08:26, William Prescott wrote:
Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the
signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this from
a couple
I think you are missing a decimal point and a few zeros between said
point and the 1. Th
Electrons move very slowly in copper, about 1 cm/sec. The question is the
signal speed in copper, which is about half the speed of light. I got this from
a couple searches in DuckDuckGo. Light in fiber is probably closer to the
vacuum speed of light.
Will
On 4 Nov 2024, at 10:00, Michael or Pe
On 11/4/2024 10:45 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
The Speed of Light = 299 792 458 m / s
Nano =0^-9
299792458 * 10^-9 =2997924580m = 29.9792458000cm = 11.8028526771in
Excuse me, but that is in a vacuum. Would be slower in some other medium
(like that length of fiber). And while electrons can approac
The Speed of Light = 299 792 458 m / s
Nano = 10^-9
299792458 * 10^-9 = .2997924580m = 29.9792458000cm = 11.8028526771in
At Mon, 4 Nov 2024 10:24:42 -0500 "Derek Atkins" wrote:
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> Michael,
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> On Mon, November 4, 2024 10:08 am, Michael or Penny Novack via
> gnucash-user wrote:
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> > She al
Michael,
On Mon, November 4, 2024 10:08 am, Michael or Penny Novack via
gnucash-user wrote:
> She also used to hand out "nanoseconds" --- lengths of copper wire which
> represented the distance electrons could go (in wire) in a nanosecond.
> To drive home that the physical sizes of machines impos
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