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This image is wrong

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@Jarvisa @Reex8 Hi, I know nothing of editing SVG files, so I would like to share there is an error in this image. The distance from one basis atom to the other basis atom is not a/4, but rather the sqrt[(a/4)^2 + (a/4)^2 + (a/4)^2] = a sqrt(3)/4.

The mistake makes sense, since the vector representation of this distance is v = a/4 (x hat + y hat + z hat), but that vector's magnitude is not a/4.

-rsfadia Rsfadia (talk) 05:21, 7 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]