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Estimating the following number should be interesting. The number will tell you why radio engineers need not worry much about photons.
The number of photons emitted per second by a medium wave transmitter of 10 kW power, emitting radiowaves of wave-length 500 m.

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Number of photons emitted per second,
`n = ("power of transmitter")/("energy of each photon")`
`= (P)/(hc//lamda) = (10^(4) xx 500)/(6.626 xx 10^(-34) xx 3 xx 10^(8)) = 2.52 xx 10^(31)`
This number is so very large that radio engineers need not worry much about photons.
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