Re: Capacitor terminology

[Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>]

> Leigh Palmer wrote:
>
> > Subject:	misconception regarding capacitors?
> > Textbooks tell us that a capacitor of capacitance 1E-10 is called a
> > 100 pF capacitor. That's not true; it's called a 100 mmf capacitor,
> > or at least it useta be!
>
> Why did they use mmF instead of pF?

This was in the days before SI. I'm an old crock.

Leigh