On Feb 15, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Herbert Graf wrote:

>> Nobody really uses millifarads though.
>
> True, but then, it is metric, and I'm pretty sure most people who
> aren't in north america would have zero problem with it.
>
except that few typewriters have proper greek "mu" characters,
so mF has been used to mean "microfarads" at various times (and
mmF for picofarads...), and even if you're fully "metricized",
I'd have to look several times at the in-circuit usage to decide
if mF really meant milli or not. (becides, this was 0.1F, so
why not 1 dF or 10 cF :-)

BillW

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