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From: yoshi@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil (Dojun Yoshikami)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Metric Prefixes
Keywords: Metric, Capacitors
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.184600.432@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 24 Mar 91 18:46:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Naval Medical Center
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Now let's see if I get this right.  I was looking in the All Electronics
catalog at the capacitors.  I was looking for some things around .1-micro
farad.  Now everything is listed in MFD.  I guess that M means mille.
It can't mean MEGA because I can't imagine anyone selling MEGA-FARAD
capacitors in such a variety of sizes (that would be a shocking experience).
As far as I can tell, Micro is usually written with a greek `Mu'.  What puzzles 
me is micro-farad sizes are VERY common, so does MFD refer to Micro-FaraD -- 
i.e. their typesetter can't set a `Mu'?  And to make things more confusing 
mille (10^-3) is usually written with a little `m'.  Now then they have some
mylar capacitors without any range (FD, MFD, Micro-FD, pfd), only numbers --
are these in Micro-FD?

In case anyone is wondering, I decided the best resolution to this quandary
was to order stuff from Newark instead.

DY ;-)