Re: Prefered resistor range

From: Robert Monsen (rcsurname_at_comcast.net)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:25:10 -0800

Fred Bloggs wrote:
> Well- I am here to tell you that 1) the explanation about color contrast
> is bunk, 2) no curve fit necessary, and 3) there exists a very-very-very
> simple formulation to calculate precisely every single value to three
> digits without the mysterious roundoff error effect due to preferred
> values. You know how to do this too- just stop playing your games.
>

I don't know how to do this. The simple 10^(i/N) formula doesn't work,
particularly for the 20%, 10% and 5% values.

Could you post it? And please, no basic... :)

Thanks 

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Regards,
   Robert Monsen
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     - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon,
        on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.
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