Re: fundamental constants

[Thomas Walter <walter at pctc dot chemie dot uni-erlangen dot de>]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk> writes:

    Brian> Thomas Walter writes:
    >> The physical constants I have from the net, they must be
    >> consistent.  I had a look at the referenced 'astroconstants'.  For
    >> my taste, the names are too short, they are {\bf not} self-explaining.
    >> And I prefer having the unit and symbol (tex notation) as comment too.
    >> For the URL:
    >> 
    >> http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/codata86/codata86.html
    >> 
    >> You need a browser supporting tables and java or something. 'lynx'
    >> does not work.

    Brian> Yes, it's unfortunate that they don't supply the constants in ASCII
    Brian> although according to the email I got from them they plan to do that.
    Brian> I tried extracting the values from the postscript files using ps2ascii
    Brian> but the results were not clean enough to make it worthwhile for the
    Brian> whole set of data, which is fairly large.

Good news.
This should not be to difficult for them as the postscipt is generated
from real data.
Don't know about your result of using ps2ascii, perhaps good enough
for the 20 most used ones as a start.
Perhaps it is useful to add the address above in the GSL manual?

Bye
Thomas

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