On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:03:00 +0200
Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Many thanks, 2.21 Ohm sounds more reasonable than 2 ZettaOhm (or 2 ZO),
> which is what 2E21 would translate into if it where 2*10^21, so I wanted
> to make sure there wasn't a typo. :)
xEy is some kind of semi-standard notation for resistor values
in the first three decades, when people do not want to write R
(as it might be confused with the part number) or a dot (which
might get lost when printing). But I don't know where this notation
came from, or what the E stands for. I can only say I have seen it
quite a few times already.
Attila Kinali
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the prosperity and technological sophistication in the world is of no
use without that foundation.
-- Miss Matheson, The Diamond Age, Neil Stephenson
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