Jinx wrote:

> Then someone will come along and say "why can't they write
> '680,000 ohms 1/4 watt 100VDC This Way Up' on it ?". 

And completely forgetting that "680,000 ohms" is way too ambiguous to be
used in production. Where was this resistor manufactured? Was that in a
country that uses a decimal comma (meaning 680 ohms to a precision of three
digits after the comma) or  in one that uses a decimal point and a comma to
separate thousands (meaning 680 kiloohms; yes, if you want to stay in this
game, you should become familiar with SI prefixes, even though they all
could be replaced by potencies of ten)?

BTW, you forgot to print the precision... :)

And BTW, to lessen the confusions with decimal point, decimal comma and
thousand separators, ISO (IIRC) suggests to use the apostrophe as thousand
separator. Both points and commas then become interchangeable decimal
separators. "680'000" seems to be less ambiguous than both "680,000" and
"680.000". (Of course, that still doesn't help much when you only see
either of the two :)

Gerhard

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