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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Metric Prefixes
Keywords: Metric, Capacitors
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.020757.769@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 02:07:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.184600.432@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> <1991Mar25.192152.3382@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:

>Ah, you must be too young.
>mf = mfd = uF = microfarad
>mmf = mmfd = pF = picofarad (micro-microfarad)
>If the capacitor is identified with just a number, it could be
>any of three things:

4) Nanofarads. A new invention. Just when you thought it was
safe to go back in the parts store :-]

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