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["Fernando D. Vila" <fer@tiziano.phys.washington.edu>]

Hello all..

  I recently sent a message to the forum which I can now see it was rather 
stupid. I asked why my calculation of bcc Fe was giving me some very bad 
numbers. I can now see that I simply (!) missed the ferromagnetic 
character of bcc Fe. (I could just use the excuse that I'm a "molecules" 
kind of guy and solid state physics is rather new to me.. :-)

  The way I found the "solution" to my problem was by doing a more through 
search in the tutorials, the manuals and the web. I would like to 
apologize for the waste of bandwidth, although it was minimal (since my 
message went ignored :-).

  My philosophy when it comes to these kind of forums (I've been a member 
of another one for many years now) is the following: when you find a 
problem, you spend some time trying to figure it out. If you come to the 
conclusion that trying to find the solution would take a lot more time, 
you ask and in the meantime you keep looking. I think this strikes a 
balance between wasting your own time (and thus rendering the forum 
useless) and wasting other people's time (and cluttering the forum with 
questions).

Regards, Fer.

Ubi dubium ibi libertas.
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Fernando D. Vila                Voice    (206)543-9697
Department of Physics           Fax      (206)685-0635
University of Washington        E-mail   fdv@u.washington.edu
Seattle, WA 98195, USA          WWW      http://faculty.washington.edu/fdv
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