[LAU] hardware - Intel CPUs

Hans Wilmers hanswil at notam02.no
Thu Apr 17 19:58:01 UTC 2014


On 04/16/2014 02:54 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Sound is nominally 720 miles per hour. Rather leisurely IOW.
> A perfect cable is C speed, 258 times faster.  But cable (coaxial) actually
> range in speeds between 66% of C for home usable cables, to around 98% of C
> for 9" diameter high power broadcast stuff, C being 186,272 miles per
> second in a vacuum.  Thats 298,035.2 kilometers per second for the metric
> folks here.
>

Just a tiny comment to the speed ratio: There is a missing factor 
seconds/hour. Light is travelling in the magnitude of one million faster 
than sound in air.

/ Hans



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