No, you didn't screw up. For n=1.25, the angular radius of the rainbow is 56°.
Badibulgator (npub1fzg…30u3) seems to be confused; they claim the opposite relationship between refractive index and rainbow size that what I showed in those tweets, maybe because I show smaller rainbows for some exotic cases with *higher* refractive indices. But ethane is exotic in the opposite manner to the examples I gave.
Greg Egan /
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2024-09-15 21:04:47
in reply to nevent1q…zul8
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