• Akasazh@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    The body is a resistor, limiting the fire of the system in the same way if a lamp would be in the circuit.

    A short is a circuit with ideally no impedance, there isn’t an ideal circuit and one can debate how much resistance would invalidate the term ‘short circuit’ so both of you might be right.

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      Yeah I think closing the circuit might be more accurate than shorting it in this case. That’s how we referred to it when I was training to be an electrician.