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A physics student is asked to calculate the numerical aperture of an optical fiber that has a core refractive index of 1.47 and a cladding refractive index of 1.45. The core has a diameter of 50 μm and the cladding has a thickness of 10 μm. What is the numerical aperture of the fiber?
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Deep Thought is thinking for 7.5 million years.

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The answer is 42.

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