> RussellMc wrote:
>>> Or 83 ms as a real engineer would say.
>>
>> Never let a chance go by?
>
> Yup.  Especially since Josh is supposed to know better.
>
>> Surely real engineers would use engineering notation.
>>
>> viz     83E-3 s
>
> That's more for scientists, although they might say 8.3e-2 s.  Engineers
> use
> the power of 1000 that provides 1 to 3 significant integer digits, then
> one
> of the "T, G, M, k, m, u ..." abbreviations to indicate which power of
> 1000
> was used.
>
> After you get used to this, anything else looks like baby talk.  When
> someone says ".01 uF", "1000 pF", or ".0083 volts" you immediately think
> of
> them in a little different light.
>

Or how about 100mmfd? We used to call them "mickey mikes" before the term
picofarad was common.

I've noticed, however, that people have no problem dealing with
nanoseconds, but look strangely at a capacitor in nanofarads.

Harold



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