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At 7:50 AM -0700 4/11/03, John Blacet wrote:

>So far, I have not seen caps ∗marked∗ in nF.

I've seen caps with "n", like those yellow box caps.

>The whole µF, nF, pF thing is really confusing to begginners.

Don't forget "MFD" and "mmF" :) That it jumps every three zeros
seems intuitive enough, but it isn't used consistently. For some
inexplicable reason, engineers don't like nanofarads. You never see
a 100 Ohm resistor called .1K