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From: pt@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk (Per Troelsen)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 50 Hz in Europe... Was the decision political?
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Date: 21 Dec 89 16:24:05 GMT
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In article <2332@ektools.UUCP> kinsman@ektools.UUCP (Andrew A. Kinsman) writes:
>
>	I was wondering if anybody on the net had any historical
>	information on why Europe is 50Hz?  Did the standards
>
>Andrew Kinsman         rutgers!rochester!kodak!ektools!kinsman

When I studied Electrical Engineering I was told that the 50 Hz
was chosen to make life easier for us engineers, because the term
2 * pi * f  is so much easier to calculate for f=50 than for f=60
(everybody knows the value of 100 * pi,  right ?    ;-)


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