Posted by Rick Denney on September 10, 2003 at 17:51:36:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: The biggest BAT posted by Maybe not quite on September 10, 2003 at 17:38:43:
Your arithmetic isn't quite right. You don't multiply the wavelength by 57, you double it 57 times. Thus, you multiply it by 2 to the 57th power. That's 1.44X10^17 times 4.78 divided by 2, which is 3.44X10^17, plus bell effects.
Rick "noting the difference between linear and geometric progressions" Denney