Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Patrick James via gnucash-user
I'm thinking I need to place a call to Maxwell... > On 11/04/2024 10:56 AM PST 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 elect

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Robert Heller
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: > > I should have read more carefully before replying. Are you (Michael) > responding to the electron s

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
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 >

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Stephen M. Butler
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread William Prescott
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
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

Re: [GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Robert Heller
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: > > Michael, > > On Mon, November 4, 2024 10:08 am, Michael or Penny Novack via > gnucash-user wrote: > > > She al

[GNC] [OT] Re: GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

2024-11-04 Thread Derek Atkins
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