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1 Inches (in) = 25400000 Nanometers (nm)
so... 1 square inch is 645160000000000 square nm
so now divide that by capacity they're shooting for (1TB - which is 1 followed by a bunch of zeros as far as the hard drive companies are concerned)
so... 645160000000000 / 1000000000000 = 645.16 square nm
now take the square root to find the length that the 13nm pits take up.
this is 25.4nm (which is probably correct since the 13nm pits need some area around that isn't a pit to support the structure and provide that magnetic shielding)
now... do some algebra... 25.4 / 13 = N / 100
13 is the target, 100 is the current working prototype.
N is 195.384615... lots more decimal places... anyhoo...
square this...
we get this...
38175.147928994... again... lots more decimal places... now divide the nm area by this and we have the capacity in bytes.
645160000000000 / 38175.147928994... = 16900000000
16.9 GB. Far cry from 1 TB, but it's getting there.
and hopefully I didn't miss copying a zero somewhere.
smaller, older fridge + cash
easy economics. Get an expensive fridge as a gift for a needy family... take fridge to thrift store... sell to store for cash... buy used, working fridge... pocket extra money for food and such.
sounds very plausible to me.
whether or not it happened that way, they'll need to find the "needy family" that got the fridge. if that family doesn't exist, then he's guilty... if they do and they admit to the equation... he's the scapegoat and much fallout will happen.
ah the excitement that is politics.
nice link... shows Texas' average murder rate as 6.2 and DC's as 35.4
show me again where the murder rate is higher in states with the death penalty?
btw... New Hampshire has the death penalty and a murder rate near the absolute bottom of the list at 1.4. The only 2 that are lower are Vermont at 1.3 and North Dakota at 1.1 (both very cold places in the winter and not very densely populated).
You could also make a correlation that the further south you go, the more murders you find... and then say that the south is full of killers, and you'd be wrong again.
If you include DC in your stats, it blows your argument away since all the rest of the country is below 10, but include DC and then your averages are blown away the other direction.
There are lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics. Remember, numbers can always be manipulated to suit your own purposes.