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waveBidder on Jan 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (20...

But we never know any quantity to full precision, so it's not like we get infinite bits about any given quantity.

Koshkin on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

That depends on the unit of measure. We know that the charge of the electron is exactly 1, with the appropriately chosen unit.

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