OT: Use of the word TARD...

You used google to compute the period of a 30 GHz sine wave? And then accepted an obviously bogus result?

I don't think he was suggesting that you should forget how to do simple arithmetic.

John

Well, why would you use google to do something that any engineer should be able to do in his head in a few seconds?

so 30 GHz == 1000/30 == 33.33 ps

Done.

Instead of calling everyone (except yourself) an idiot, all you should have said is "oops, slipped a decimal point" (which most people do now and then in casual conversation) and you'd have made the first step to being a member of this group, and not what you now are.

It's not a good idea to slip a decimal point when it really matters, like ordering the concrete to build a dam.

I seem to have a units checker working in the back of my brain. I almost always catch gross math errors in anything I see. The newspaper is a gold mine of stupid math and engineering unit mistakes. I encourage my engineers to do math in their heads, instead of pulling out their Blackberries, so that they develop this quick-sanity-check skill.

John

A well substantiated clam, DimBulb. Every post you make is more evidence for John's position(s), AlwaysWrong.

Or landing on the moon .. oops!.

It's a throwback to when we all used slide rules and had to put the decimal point in ourselves.

The newspaper is a gold

Most places, pulling out your blackberries will get you arrested ;-)

THIS IS YOUR PROBLEM, JOHN. YOU DO NOT GET TO DECLARE WHO HAS OR HAS NOT MADE SOME IMAGINED STEP.

FUCK YOU, BOY!

Wrong. It was a Mars lander, you senile old fart.

And it was US over Metric, not a decimal position.

You get arrested for even attempting to bring one in the lab.

It was a *hypothetical* suggestion.

Don't imply meaning where none was intended.

Well, there certainly was an actual event, Mr. Lack-of-intentions. It shows.

Oh boy. The RoyTard has invaded yet another group.

The issue isn't wavelength, it's period.

John