Re: Totally newbie question

On Jun 28, 10:01 am, "Tim Williams" <tmoran...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"about 1.000 ohms" sounds really silly. The practice of indicating a
precise number by extending the decimal completely negates the "about"
calling for generality! Unless you meant ",", in which case "1,000" = 1k
ohm, which is a more common value than a 0.1% tolerance "about 1 ohm"
resistor.

In some Nordic countries "," is the decimal point and "." is the
thousands seperator. So you sometimes see numbers like 1.000.000,5 in
documents. I have no idea why things evolved this way :P

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