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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: shmoo plots
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.182011.14117@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 18:20:11 GMT
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In article <1991Mar30.171137.25052@src.honeywell.com> ferguson@maitai.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Dennis Ferguson) writes:
>>Easy...a shmoo plot is just a graphical representation of some kind
>>of circuit condition versus two input variables. [stuff deleted] 
>>I think the name came from the old cartoon Li'l Abner...wasn't there
>>a creature called a shmoo?  I could be wrong. [stuff deleted]
>
>Gee... I was taught that a smho was the reciprocal of resistance or
>what is formally called conductance.  Hence, the smho was ohms spelled 
>backwards.  Several years back, the smho was abandoned for the internationally
>accepted term "Siemans".  This was comparable to the abandoning of "cycles
>per second" for "Hertz". 
>
>Is there some joke here I'm not getting....
>
   Yes. A reciprocal ohm used to be called a "mho" (never "smho")
   and anyhow "smho" is not "shmoo" (look closely at the order of
   letters in it).
     
     The mho is now called the Siemens (not "Siemans").


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