VANAGON archives -- March 2001, week 1 (#485)

Date:         Wed, 7 Mar 2001 07:39:25 -0800
Reply-To:     Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
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From:         Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA>
Subject:      Re: electrical experts: what ? -Wire Sizes
Comments: To: David Marshall <vanagon@volkswagen.org>
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David,

you are correct only if you have square cross section wire!

The area of a circle (cross sectional area of the wire): A = pi * radius^2.

so 5 square millimeters would actually be 1.26 mm in diameter

ab

on 6/3/01 5:53 PM, David Marshall at vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG wrote:

> I'm not a math genious here, but isn't 2^2 (square millimetre) the same as
> 2mm in diameter?  and 5^2 (5 square millimetres) 5mm in diameter?
>
>
> David Marshall

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