[gta02-core] Values and units in schematics

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Wed Jul 1 12:19:03 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Sure, but 1200U isn't all that uncommon. I even Digi-Key use
> only increments of six orders of magnitude for things as basic
> as capacitors. Not that I particularly enjoy looking up 100 nF
> capacitors there - "10000pF" has an awful lot of zeroes ...

Here's a perfect example of it being hard to spot an order of magnitude 
difference when lots of zeroes are present ;-)



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