How is the coulomb defined in terms of elementary charge?

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Charge on one electron (elementary charge) = 1.60217662 × 10-19 coulombs.
Charge on 6.241509745 x 10^18 electrons is equal to 1 coulomb.
So the two values above are multiplied to give one coulomb of charge ?
 
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Since those numbers are inverses of each other, multiplying them together gives you 1.