resistor naming...

[The Dark force of dance]

Y-ellow Christian 'n' all.
        True I was being a little facetious but I remember being told that.
"One day son, we'll all be doing our circuits that way." And to this date
I've been waiting for the change. The Americans Don't do it, the Japs don't
do it and we certainly don't do it. So what happened? To be honest, drawing
those little squiggly lines was always a pain in the arse but I never found
a sufficient roll model as it were, to do any different.

As for the other, it was a natural thing for me to use the multiplier as the
decimal point. I use to work in the printing industry in another life and
that's full of little conventions like that. For example a "7" is written
like a backwards "F". Zeros have a stroke through them like an OCR font.
Only it actually evolved the other way. Printers had been putting a stroke
through zeros since the year dot. It's all so that everything was
unambiguous. Even a hastily scrawled message could be interpreted exactly
with these conventions. But it's curious the number of people who look at
one of my notes and ask, "What's that thing?" Or at least they have to stop
and think about it.

But I've been doing things that way for so long now I don't actually know
another way. I guess the same thing goes in Europe now. It's actually
probably a better way of doing it but down here, and in the rest of the
world it seems, we stuck with the old way. Hey at least we decimalized. :)

Be absolutely Icebox.
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