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Why can one ignore quantisation of electric charge, when dealing with macroscopic, i.e. large scale charges?

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At the macroscopic level, one deals with enormous number of charges as compare to the magnitude of single charge e. At this scale increase or decrease of charge in terms of e is comparably very small, hence can be taken as a continuous value.
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