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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Masao: [QB] 1. One discrepancy I see right away is the size of the antimatter pod. Ritten says it is 100 cubic meters while you (Treknophyte) says it is 1000 cubic meters. 2. Another problem is that you're including the mass of the matter reactant twice: once in the energy mass equation where you double the figure for 1 kg to get the figure for 2 kg of reactant and in the line "reactant mass for 1 pod" you double it again ot account for 2 pods. 3. A math mistakes creeps in when you multiply 1.414 x 10^5 x (9.0 x 10^16 x 2 = 1.8 x 10^17): you get 2.5 x 10^23 but the correct answer is 2.5 x 10^22. You added a ^1. (You didn't write the additional 2 in that equation to get 1.8 x 10^17 J/kg, but you multiplied by 2). 4. Everything after that is correct, so I get 3 x 10^6 MT, which, when multiplied by 20, is what you get. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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