Confused dude, and by orders of magnitude, dude

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Someone wrote:
>>As a mental reminder, the time constant for a one meg resistor connected
>to
>>a one uF capacitor is one second, frequency is 1/6 Hz.

If the time constant of an RC circuit is one second, how can the frequency
be 1/6 hz?  Isn't that 1 hz?  Isn't freq the reciprocal of the time
constant?

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