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In olden days scientists considered energy to flow continuously and so any amount of fraction is possible. But Planck imagined in a revolutionary way that energy is not coming out or getting absorbed continuously but only in small packets. That packet is named as quanta which has energy given by hv, here h is Planck's constant and v is the frequency of radiation. So 1/2 hv is not possible but n * hv where n is an integer.

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