On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:34 PM, James Nick Sears wrote:

> Wrong.
>
> If you need 95k (+/- 5%), you need roughly 90.25k-99.75k.  If the
> 100k resistor is +/- 5%, you'll have 95k-105k.  Not good at all.
> FAIL.  Spaceship crashes.
>
> On the other hand, If you add the 20M (+/- 5%) in parallel, you'll
> get a range of 90476 - 100000, which is much closer to what you
> desire (something like +5.3/-4.8%).
>
> The fact that there is a tolerance for error does not negate the
> virtue in centering the error distribution on your desired value.
>
> -n.



Guh.  95k != 99.5k and 2M != 20M.

Nevermind.  Back to work now.

-n.

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