:: t's bad enough to see ".001uF" instead of "1nF", but "1mF"

My error in the first place, I was expecting to see extra 0000's with 
uF and the milli size didn't register as I wasn't expecting it. Lame 
excuse maybe, but true.

When I first arrived in Australia I was waffling on about nF's and 
would find peoples eyes glazed over while they tried to work out how 
many K's of pF or fractions of nF. In fact I've found, apart from the 
last  4 years, many people in the US weren't nF friendly, in fact one 
hobby magazine edited my nF's to uF's deducting publishing money as 
they went.

It's a case of what one is used to I suspect going at a mild topic 
tangent - I once made a cake from a Norwegian magazine - they use 
decilitres a lot, in the UK it's rarely if ever used, my mind refused 
to cope - liquid coffee cake anyone? Point being, whilst mathmatically 
it should be apparent, my mind doesn't always kick in at first glance.

Colin 
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