Nick_Tarleton comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 19 March 2010 04:36:55PM 1 point [-]

IIRC, their resonator’s size was cited as “about a billion atoms”, which turns out as a cube with .02µm sides for silicon

Every source I've seen (e.g.) gives the resonator as flat, some tens of µm long, and containing ~a trillion atoms.