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From: ingoldsb@ctycal.COM (Terry Ingoldsby)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Rational Capacitor Prefixes
Summary: Another convention
Keywords: nF, cap value prefixes
Message-ID: <450@ctycal.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 89 18:58:25 GMT
References: <26043@quacky.mips.COM>
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In article <26043@quacky.mips.COM>, vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
> This is a plea to rationalize capacitor unit suffixes. Most postings
> give capacitances in terms of pF or uF. Unfortunately, this often means
...
> In conformance with good S.I. practice, the "nanofarad" is coming into wide
Another useful convention is to put the SI prefix where the decimal point
should go in resistor ratings (is it also used for caps?).

Eg.
  4.7 ohms   =   4R7
  4.7 K      =   4K7
  4.7 M      =   4M7

This is very useful when schematics are faded (ie. photocopied).




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