[time-nuts] cheap 5V OCXO in 14DIP has about 1E-9 drift per day

[Greg Broburg]

I believe it has been an ISO convention for at least
20 years and the reason for doing it is zactly whats
been noted here. After youve been party to seeing
what a missed decimal point on a part can do on
an assembly line it makes a lot more sense.

Greg

On 4/9/2011 1:20 PM, Mike S wrote:
> At 02:51 PM 4/9/2011, Chuck Harris wrote...
>> Ok, I'm going nuts.  Why are you guys using such a
>> perverse way of indicating frequency?
>>
>> I was of the understanding that SI specified you display
>> 1.0MHz as 1.0MHz, or 1,0MHz.  But not 1M0 Hz.
>>
>> What's the story?
>
> I suspect it's following the (most common in Europe) convention for 
> showing units on electrical schematics. e.g. 3k3 for a 3.3 k resistor, 
> where the multiplier is used in place of a decimal point. It's done 
> because decimal points sometimes don't reproduce/copy well. Certainly 
> not necessary, and non-standard, in email.
>
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