>> you get 6k8 ...
>
>Because it's really annoying to read?

Well, annoying until you miss the decimal point on a schematic and read 6.8k 
as 68k, because it hasn't printed very well.

Once you get used to it, the translation in the mind is just the same as 
colour band values to English (or whatever your natural language is). 

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