𝑝 𝑐 -ep: gel point obtained by professor Stepo - , and professor Oberth 𝑝 𝑐 -mc: gel point obtained through Monte Carlo model - , According to Table , when the average functionalities of components A and B are equal, the same result is obtained by the derived Eq. ( ) and Eq. ( ) by Macosko but not equal to the result obtained by Carothers equation .