Re: [Bug-gsl] Electron charge in CGS(E)

[Brian Gough]

At Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:34:05 +0400,
Evgeny Kurbatov wrote:
> I think I found a wrong value of electron charge in gsl_const_cgs.h
> file.  Its value correspond to the MKS system of units, i.e.
> 1.602176487e-19 while the true value in CGS(E) is 4,80320427e-10
> (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_charge or slightly
> different value on http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constants.html).

Hi, 

Thanks for the bug report.  The situation with the file
gsl_const_cgs.h is problematic -- it has been replaced with
gsl_const_cgsm.h, which should have the correct CGSM values.  The old
file had to be kept because some programs depended on the name.

I'm going to put a #warning macro into the gsl_const_cgs.h to make the
situation clearer.

-- 
Brian Gough
(GSL Maintainer)

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