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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: Watt Hour Meters
Summary: The ICE man Cometh.  Or does he Goeth?
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Date: 13 Jan 90 02:26:56 GMT
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I claimed ELI the ICE man was ambigious.

In <5606@ae.sei.cmu.edu> rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito) replied:
> You may know the phrase, but you certainly don't understand its
> interpretation.  The order of the letters is the key.  Voltage (E) across
> an inductor (L) leads (comes before) the current (I).

	But it is equally true that Current (I) through an inductor (L)
lags (comes after) the Voltage (E).  Is 3 > 2 or is 2 < 3?
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