Re: [EE} nano Farads

On Mon, February 9, 2026 8:38 am, Chuck Olson wrote:
> If Digi-Key was on the ball those caps would have been described as:
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> 4700 uuF
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> :)

I remember micro-micro Farads! We called them MickeyMikes. I tutor math
(high school equilivancy) and recently was discussing scientific notation,
engineering notation, and metric prefixes. (by the way, the books make no
mention of engineering notation). Anyway, I found that nano and pico were
fairly new, introduced in
1960.mhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

Harold
https://w6iwi.org





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