Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>> 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 :)
> 
> But the OP also forgot about why you don't need all those zeros, they do
> not add anything to the value, so why not just put 680k ...

Of course. That was meant as a more general comment, more useful for
numbers in a text than on a component :)

> and for decimal points do it the way many Europeans draw their
> schematics, and use the multiplier letter as the decimal point, so you
> get 6k8 ...

Ah yes... being European by origin, I grew up with that and it's quite
natural to me. But I have learned not to rely on it being universally
understood -- not even in Europe by people with a technical but not
electronics background. This notation seems to be limited to electronics,
and to cases where the actual unit can be omitted.

Gerhard

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