Re: [EE} nano Farads

I remember an issue of Hewlett Packard Journal that had an article on one
of the first CPU chips thay made themselves for a computer line they
developed. The article quoted the area of the chip in nanoacres.



On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 at 22:09, CDB <[email protected]> wrote:

> And there are people like me who have come around to the thinking 4700uF
> should actually be 4.7mF.
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> Now I'm off for 1 gigametre car journey. :)
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> On 10/02/2026 00:55:27, "David C Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >Why are some distributors so reluctant to use the unit nanoFarad?
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> >I have recently sourced some 4,7nF capacitors and they are described by
> >Digikey as being 4,700pF and by Nerwark as .0047uF
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> >I find it most confusing
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