[sdiy] DMM Question (Newbie Alert!)

[Sam Ecoff]

Thanks, Paul + Oren.

It makes perfect sense now!

Sam E.

On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Sam Ecoff wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In order to reduce my newbie-ness and educate myself, I'm picking up  
> some EE classes at the local tech college. It's fun and keeps me off  
> the streets. While in lab measuring resistors today, a question  
> occurred which the professor was unable to answer, so I'm asking  
> here...
>
> I get that a DMM provides different ranges settings for measuring  
> various resistances with greater accuracy, and I understand that  
> each range setting on the dial represents a different power of 10.  
> What I don't understand is why the settings are marked 2M, 200k,  
> 20k, 2k and 200 rather than 1M, 100k, 10k, 1k, and 100. Can anybody  
> help me figure this out?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam E.