I Hate Numeric Constants in Formulas

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@frunsebischkek1050 2 жыл бұрын

Very useful! Thank you. Please keep going this way. Thera many channels about electronics, but the content level isn't high enough. You are a professional.

@oldhackee3915 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@thecasualengineer99 2 жыл бұрын

I have an electronic background and we covered this in my apprentice training, without some idea what the constant means, it's just "ok, let's use this apparently random value coz I don't know what it does"

@oldhackee3915 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Thanks for the comment.

@RideGasGas 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this. I rarely comment on videos before watching the whole thing but I'm going to go ahead and do so here. Part of my current job has me working in international standards committees and with national, regional, and international regulatory bodies to help develop new standards for my industry and new regulatory rules for the operation of equipment in various frequency bands. I had seeing unexplained numerical constants in formulae or rules and where possible have pushed for anything I've worked on to at least show the derivation of the constant in the document so that newcomers will understand how the constant came about and what it contains. The other is getting people on board with the SI and carrying units through in formulas documents. This allows folks to follow along and get used to doing some unit analysis long the way. If when working through the problem on their own they come up with meters per second when they were looking for watts per hertz they know a mistake was made along the way.

@oldhackee3915 5 ай бұрын

That’s a very interesting job you have there. Knowing the units gives me a satisfying feeling to say the least. Thanks for the comments.

@milantrcka121 2 жыл бұрын

I do too. With numbers only, one cannot be sure what units are being used - unless explicitly specified. Perhaps not necessarily in these cases. By invoking Floobydust, I feel the presence of the Great Bob Pease.

@oldhackee3915 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I know Bob Pease was a great National Semiconductor engineer, but I don't know his relevance to Floobydust.