Congratulations on 5000 posts, Imprecise!
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Ilikevinyl
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This is not a Birthday thread, Steve, it is a milestone thread!
Knew someday I would get the birthdays mixed up with the milestones. 
Congratulations, imprecise!
Congrats on 5K Imprecise. Here's to many more: 
Imprecise
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Congratulations, imprecise!
I will stop when I hit 5K years. Or 5K donuts, whichever comes first.
I stepped on a few of those when my kids were little.
Imprecise
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Damn!
Ilikevinyl
Cool Breeze
With me it's albums! Always have to move some around to get to my stereo! Now, reduced my collection and bought new shelving. Organization!
Mystic
We're all born mad
Congratulations @Imprecise ... I enjoy your contributions ... please keep 'em comin'.
Imprecise
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I'll do my best. Oops, just did...
Imprecise
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There is discipline involved in obtaining high post counts. Adhere to those rigid standards laid out in the AK Handbook and you'll be fine.
The bear ate my copy.
Congratulations, imprecise!
Well, Steve was just a little Imprecise in his response.
Congrats!
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Imprecise
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Well, Steve was just a little Imprecise in his response.
Congrats!
Maybe he was confused by the uncertainty in my avatar.
It's a mix of the absolute value of the inverse of Plank's constant, with a greater than at the end. I think.
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The h with the bar is the reduced Plank's Constant, i.e., Planck's Constant divided by 2π, which is the quantum of angular momentum.
The | 〉is Dirac notation, also called Ket notation, and indicates a state vector.
Note that in physics, a vector is not just an abstract mathematical entity. It expresses something physical, usually in terms of three dimensional space.
The whole expression is the unit by which the angular momentum of electrons (usually) is described. A given electron in an orbital in the electron shell of an atom has an angular momentum in multiples of the expression. Since Planck's constant is quantized, this is why there are discrete orbitals in the electron shell of an atom, which is why chemistry exists.
