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Old 13-05-2010, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by mithrandir View Post
You've been missing the implied unit in the paper. 1 sheet per day.

thickness of 1 sheet * sheets/day * days/year * years all cancels leaving whatever linear unit the sheet thickness is in.
It's not one sheet per day, it's one sheet = one day.
Sheet per day implies a rate of growth or decline.

The maths is even less ambiguous as there is no 1/T dimensional term in the calculations.

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Steven
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