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WE HAVE ANSWERED ALMOST ALL OF THE ORIGINAL QUESTION BUT WHAT ABOUT THE
MYSTERIOUS I?  RETURNING BACK TO THE EARLY DAYS, EXPERIMENTERS HAD LEARNED
TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN A QUANTITY OF CHARGE AND THE FLOW OF CHARGE
CURRENT.  THE FRENCH EXPERIMENTER AMPERE FOR WHOM THE UNIT OF CURRENT WAS
LATER NAMED GAVE FLOW OF CHARGE THE NAME INTENSITI DE COURANT INTENSITY OF
CURRENT AND ASSIGNED IT THE SYMBOL I OR I IN EQUATIONS.  THIS IS ONE REASON
WHY ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS USE J INSTEAD OF THE MATHEMATICIANS I TO REPRESENT
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THE IMAGINARY SQUARE ROOT OF ONE IN THEIR EQUATIONS.  THE AMPERE IS A FLOW
OF ONE COULOMB C PER SECOND.  HOW MANY ELECTRONS MAKE UP 1 C?  6R24 X 10 18
ELECTRONS.  BASIC RADIO FROM 1942 GIVES US AN IDEA OF HOW MANY THAT IS IF 3
MILLION PEOPLE WERE TO COUNT FOR 8 HOURS PER DAY AT THE RATE OF 200 PER
MINUTE, THEY WOULD HAVE TO COUNT FROM THE TIME OF THE TROJAN WARS IN 500 BC
DOWN TO THE PRESENT IN ORDER TO COUNT THE NUMBER OF ELECTRONS PASSING BY AT
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