Re: Rational Capacitor Prefixes

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1989 16:57

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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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1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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