Re: Capacitor terminology

[Clarence Bennett <bennett@oakland.edu>]

> 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?

I expect  mmF  was in use long before p was added to the official list.
> Steven T. Ratliff
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> Northwestern College
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>
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Clarence Bennett
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