At 05:10 PM 2/15/2006 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > > One fellow I worked with insisted on specifying all caps in picofarads
> > to
> > > avoid this.. So that nice memory super cap is :
> > > 4700000000000pF
> >
> > Wow, that must have been... fun... :)
>
>
>I do agree with the convention of putting a 0 in front of any . so the dp
>dosen't get lost, especially on faxes.  0.1uF becomes 01uf and you know what
>happened to the point.

What's wrong with 100nF?

We don't go around saying 0.01uA all the time, it's much easier to write 10nA.

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