Re: Scope attenuators 1,2,5, why bother?

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:04:23 +0000, Joerg wrote:

Like with all things that is what engineers have become used to. Change
it and you'll hear complaints. After all a foot still has 12 inches,
most currencies go 10-20-50-100, there are 12 months in a year and so
on. Remember when they wanted to change a full circle from 360 to 400
degrees? Nobody bit.

There was never any need: 360 degrees == 400 grads. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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