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

Yes, I've seen that in some old schematics.  What's really bad about that i=
s
that the "m" stood for "micro", not "milli" as you might expect now.
100mmfd was actually 100 picoFarads.  Yucc.

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

I never understood this either.  For some reason long ago, nano and milli
didn't catch on for Farads.  Hopefully we are all collectively trying to
change that by using nano and milli everywhere they make the integer part o=
f
the number 1-3 digits long.


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