Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Rational Capacitor Prefixes
Message-ID: <1989Aug23.165721.1707@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26043@quacky.mips.COM>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 16:57:21 GMT

In article <26043@quacky.mips.COM> vaso@mips.COM (Vaso Bovan) writes:
>(Yes, I know, for the purist it should be 47 nF (ie with a space), but that
>often looks peculiar in non-proportional pitch.

Actually, for the purist it should be not a whole space but a narrow space;
troff "\|" is suitable.  But when reproducing that on a fixed-pitch device,
leaving out the space is probably better than widening it.
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