RE: 'true" spark length was Re: Desktop Bipolar Coil

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Original poster: "Steve Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>

Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

 >the "True"
 >length is indeterminate and may be anything greater than the straight line
 >distance and less than infinity... TCs are far too
 >complex to be able to speak intelligently about single-value performance.

 >Hopefully this may help take some of the fuzziness out of the discussion.

Maybe, but it replaced the fuzziness with fractals and chaos, which is even
worse :D All I know is, it's a random thing, so if you graphed probability
of a strike to a rod in time interval T vs. distance of rod from toroid, you
would probably see a Poisson distribution. We ought to be able to use that
to produce a standard spark length parameter. Maybe someone who actually
knows about statistics could help me out here?

http://stat.tamu.edu/stat30x/notes/node70.html#SECTION00435000000000000000

Steve C.