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The Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) is an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council for Science. The Task Group on Fundamental Constants periodically provides the internationally accepted set of values of the fundamental physical constants. This dataset contains the "2018 CODATA" version, published on May 2019.

Usage

codata

codata.cor

Format

An object of class data.frame with the following information for each physical constant: ASCII symbol, quantity description, type, value, uncertainty, unit.

A matrix of correlations between physical constants.

Source

Eite Tiesinga, Peter J. Mohr, David B. Newell, and Barry N. Taylor (2020). The 2018 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants (Web Version 8.1). Database developed by J. Baker, M. Douma, and S. Kotochigova. Available at https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.

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