Re: [asa] Cosmologists questioning the Copernican principle?

Iain said: This was achieved by
inadvertently putting the square of Planck's constant on the
denominator of a fraction instead of the numerator!
I respond: Dang, I hate when that hapens.

David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com>wrote:

> Not the largest "small correction" I've ever seen.
>
> When at University, my tutorial partner once got a physics calculation
> wrong by a massive factor of 10^133. This was achieved by
> inadvertently putting the square of Planck's constant on the
> denominator of a fraction instead of the numerator!
>
> Iain
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au>
> wrote:
> > Hi George,
> >
> > You wrote:
> >>
> >> A small correction to my earlier post - the last figure should be
> 10^120,
> >> not 120%.
> >
> > Ah!
> >
> > So THAT'S what a physicist means by a "small correction" :)
> >
> > Blessings,
> > Murray
> >
> >
> >
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