Talk:Ampere
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The Ampere is still a base unit: see the page of the International Bureau of Measurement (http://www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/base_units.html).
- Still? Are you expecting them to change it? -- Tim Starling 13:28, Dec 16, 2003 (UTC)
- Yes. Once we are able to reliably count individual electrons, that will be a much more precise way of measuring many electrical quantities. Then I expect the Coulomb to become the base unit -- re-defined as containing some arbitrary number of electrons -- and the Ampere re-defined as one Coulomb per second. --DavidCary 02:41, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
>> The smallest commonly used submultiple of the ampere is the milliampere (mA), which is one thousandth of an ampere.
- No way. One might write something like "Commonly used magnitudes range from 40 ampere home wiring down to picoampere bias currents of FET OPamps", but there are no true limits to this definition of 'commonly used'. — How about a table that compares light bulbs, a big CPU, LEDs, US/European home wiring, flashlights, transatlantic power lines, lightning bolts, car stereos, etc. ? It would take up half the space of the current article though (don't you hate that pun). Femto 15:11, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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