• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Nah, it’s the surface area of the extent of the effect. (For greatest volume affected, suspend the device such that its effect can reach, unimpeded, a sphere with that surface area.) Dunno how the physics works; something-something Gauss’s law, I imagine.

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      5 months ago

      That’s actually a proper non-joky perfectly valid and scientific way to justify listing a covered area in square meters rather than volume.

      I doubt that’s the actual geometry they used and the surface whose area they list, but none the less it’s still well spotted.