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IN the preface to his “Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases”, 1940, the late Sir James Jeans intimates that I had checked “all the numerical calculations” in the fourth edition (1925) of his “Dynamical Theory of Gases”. It should, however, be stated that as a rule I only checked one or two of the items in the tables. As regards these and the numerical results given in the text, I did indeed as a rule agree, at least approximately, with Jeans' figures; but in a few cases, some of which are to be mentioned in a forthcoming note in the Philosophical Magazine, my results differed substantially.
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SEDGWICK, W. Checking of Sir James Jeans' Numerical Calculations. Nature 158, 951 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158951a0
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