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Re: Re: Re: Combined Set, SetDelayed

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• Subject: [mg100892] Re: [mg100836] Re: [mg100829] Re: Combined Set, SetDelayed
• From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:45:45 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <h0vteh$6v2$1@smc.vnet.net> <h12gck$e8s$1@smc.vnet.net>

yes, even on my iMac that seems unfeasible.
P

2009/6/17 Louis Talman <talmanl at gmail.com>:
> How about "impossibly quick"?  in 2E-15 seconds, light travels just 0.0=
006
> millimeters.  Not even close to the width of the chip...
> On Jun 16, 2009, at 7:48 PM, peter wrote:
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> seems amazingly quick - 10^-15 seconds.....?
>
> 2009/6/15 Helen Read <hpr at together.net>:
>
> AES wrote:
>
> Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
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> wrote:
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> 0.811 seconds. The second version, using the function that remembers
>
> values, took only 1.87003*10^-15 seconds.
>
> The frequency of visible light is around 3*10^14 Hz, so that's around
>
> one period of a visible light wave.  Is there maybe a typo here?
>
> No, no typo. Not sure what your point is.
>
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> Helen Read
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> University of Vermont
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> --
> Peter Lindsay
>
> --Lou Talman
>   Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
>   Metropolitan State College of Denver
>   <http://clem.mscd.edu/%7Etalmanl>
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