Recent content by MarkSykes

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    What are your thoughts about the Large Hadron Collider?

    No. Higher energy particles routinely hit the top of the atmosphere.
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    Interpret Hexadecimal Dump in Computer Science

    ASCII characters are eights bits apiece, and the first five eight-bit values are 42 65 67 69 6E. Mark
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    Interpret Hexadecimal Dump in Computer Science

    http://www.ee.uAlberta.ca/~cockburn/ee380/winter1999/midtermsolns.html is a similar solved problem. Mark
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    How Do You Convert Old English Length Measures to Modern Units?

    Is that the case? I take it to mean that there is 10 gry per line, in the same sense that when we say an inch is 1/12 of a foot it's the same as saying there are "12 inches per foot." I also come up with 1 inch = 120 gry: 1 gry = 1/10 line 10 gry = 1 line 1 line = 1/12 inch 12...
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    High School DIY Variable Capacitor for Homemade AM Radio Receiver

    Here is an article on building air variable capacitors. Mark