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A003678 Decimal expansion of speed of light (meters/second).
(Formerly M1912)
14
2, 9, 9, 7, 9, 2, 4, 5, 8 (list; constant; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

9,1

COMMENTS

Since 1983 the speed of light has been defined to be exactly 299792458 m/s.

REFERENCES

CRC Handbook for Chemistry and Physics, 75th edition, (1994-1995), Page 1-1.

H. J. Fischbeck and K. Fischbeck, Formulas. Facts and Constants, Springer-Verlag, NY, 2nd ed., 1987.

R. F. Fox and T. P. Hill, An exact value for Avogadro's number, American Scientist, 95 (No. 2, 2007), 104-107.

K. R. Lang, Astrophysical Data: Planets and Stars, Springer-Verlag, NY, 1991.

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

G. Bonnet, La vitesse de la lumiere (Text in French)

NIST, CODATA Fundamental Physical Constants

Eric Weisstein, World of Physics, Speed of Light

Wikipedia, Speed of light

CROSSREFS

Cf. A070058, A070059, A070060, A070062, A070063, A070064.

Sequence in context: A021889 A016643 A087042 * A201683 A197394 A198942

Adjacent sequences:  A003675 A003676 A003677 * A003679 A003680 A003681

KEYWORD

cons,nonn,fini,full

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments from Ron Marcinski (ronmarcinski(AT)hotmail.com), Apr 18 2002

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