>> It is just stupid to print "10.000uF", when it is much easier to print >10mF. > >We had one yahoo engineer that insisted in labeling every cap in pF (!) >Let's see.. I'm using a 470000000000pF cap in my current project.. >He insisted it reduced confusion. :-P But if he had used either 470E9 pF or 470M3 F then confusion could indded be reduced, once one becomes used to the convention (and gets the number of 0's correct :-)) [[ In case it's not obvious Exxx = 10^xxx and Mxxxx = 10^-xxx]] RM >