Re: [EE} nano Farads

Harold -

Maybe Alfred P. Morgan also called them that ?  :)

https://drive.proton.me/urls/X0QFV2VZR4#ZLgubp8ssVvK

Chuck

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM Harold Hallikainen
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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> > :)
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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
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> Harold
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