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Re: Resistor Code



0 Black
1 Brown
2 Red
3 Orange
4 Yellow
5 Green
6 Blue
7 Violet
8 Gray
9 White

Black is lack of color, Brown is what you get with red and black, then
the rainbow, Gray is the step before White, which is all colors of light
present.

On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Quist, Oren Phys wrote:

Of course there is a legitimate (non-sexist) explanation to the color code.
At least for most of the colors:

learn the colors of the rainbow!

red => 2
orange => 3
yellow => 4
green => 5
blue => 6
violet => 7

Don't ask what happened to "indigo"
zero and one being black and brown you have to remember as well as
eight and nine being gray and white.

Oren Quist
SDSU