From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 04:37:03 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: Nanotechnology (fwd)
Message-ID: <199801172105.PAA15527@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:22:59 +0100 (MET)
> Subject: Re: Nanotechnology
> From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)

> > 1 coulomb/second = 6.24 x 10^18 atoms/sec.

There are a couple of things incorrect with this.

A Coulomb is 1N of e-/s, not atoms. N atoms is called a Mole.

N, or Avagadro's Number, is 6.023E23 not 6.24E18


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