DAC resolution / availability

[Paul Perry]

At 08:44 AM 18/03/99 +0100, jorgen.bergfors wrote:
> It seems that the actual value is almost always slightly lower
> than the nominal. Of the 20k resistors, only 2 out of 100 was 
>more than 20.000 k. So I used the 20 kohm range on the DVM to 
>get maximum resolution.
>
Jorgen, what are you using as a 'standard' resistor to know 
whether 20k on your multimeter is 20k or 19.994K?

Paul Perry melbourne australia