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Yes I had read this story somewhere... incredibly dumb really. Boys will be boys :-(...and now I know what a 'dollar' means (it figured in the Bethe link in the earlier nuclear mariner story).
You've lost me on the 'dollar' comment....
I meant this old paper by Bethe and Tait now declassified, and referred by John Dudley Miller. Page 5. It's the difference between the critical and prompt-critical chain ratio.
...when both are around unity.
Ah, yes. I hadn't used that term in decades! Thanks for shaking the cobwebs!
Yes I had read this story somewhere... incredibly dumb really. Boys will be boys :-(
ReplyDelete...and now I know what a 'dollar' means (it figured in the Bethe link in the earlier nuclear mariner story).
You've lost me on the 'dollar' comment....
ReplyDeleteI meant this old paper by Bethe and Tait now declassified, and referred by John Dudley Miller. Page 5. It's the difference between the critical and prompt-critical chain ratio.
ReplyDelete...when both are around unity.
DeleteAh, yes. I hadn't used that term in decades! Thanks for shaking the cobwebs!
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