Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes

Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by Retric on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:36PM (#37093692)

You messed up at your last step 1 millionth = 1mm, 10 millionth = 0.1mm, 100 millionth = 0.01mm

0.01mm is very difficult when you’re talking large custom objects with complex shapes.

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by dale_glass on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:44PM (#37093771)

Oh, English fail on my part then. I had assumed that 100 millionths of a metre == 100 * 1/1000000.

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by eis on Friday August 11, 2023 @05:27PM (#37094262)

The german site of the source speaks of 0.1mm so you were correct

   > bei Toleranzen von teilweise nur 0,1 Millimeter

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by Retric on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:00PM (#37095099)

No your correct, I just read it wrong.

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by starkrights on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:54PM (#37093885)

I think the original commenter is right- correct me if I missed what you’re getting at.

Keeping it all in the same units until the end here:

1 millionth of 1 meter = (1 / 1,000,000)m = (1e-6m)

1 millionth * 100 = 100 millionths => (1e-6m) * 100 = (1e-4m) = 100 millionths

(1e-4m) = .0001m | 1m = 1000mm => .0001m*1000 = .1mm

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Re:Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for ... by Retric on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:49PM (#37094995)

Ops, 100 ( 1 millionths of a meter) is a much more reasonable tolerance here than 1 / 100 millionths of a meter.

I am to used to people saying 100 millionth of a meter to mean 10 nm or 0.01 µm which would have looked insane if I had written that.

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