[Elecraft] Puffing to keep up with the Nanofarads...

[G3VVT at aol.com]

In a message dated 16/12/04 18:44:22 GMT Standard Time,  
rondec at easystreet.com writes:

Larry,  N8LP wrote:

Oops... it was pointed out to me off-list that the required  cap is 4.7 
"nf"... not the 4.7 "pf" I misread it as. I would expect 4.7 nf  more 
commonly to be written as .0047 uf, but maybe it's an international  thing.
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In Europe at least things seem to have gone another step forward in some  
quarters with what was expressed as 4.7nF (0.0047uF) now often written as 4n7.  
This follows through in other decades as 4p7 for 4.7pF, 4u7 for 4.7uF and so 
on.  The idea also seems to have been used with resistors where a 0.47 ohm is 
seen as  R47, a 4.7 ohm is now seen as 4R7, a 4.7K ohm as 4K7 and a 4.7M ohm as  
4M7.
 
The method has less chance of misinterpretation it would seem.
 
The biggest change on my part was going from metres to kc/s and the like,  
kc/s to kHz not really representing a problem.
 
Bob, G3VVT