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Dirty mnemonics, as only the military could teach
Blatherskite the Mugwump - Bandwidth Bandit Started conversation Jan 9, 2003
I acquired the following mnemonic devices while studying electronics in the military:
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For the metric prefixes tera, giga, mega, kilo, milli, micro, nano, and pico.
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Now
For resistor color codes. Brown=0, black=1, red=2, orange=3, yellow=4, green=5, blue=6, violet=7, grey=8, white=9, tolerances are gold=+/- 5%, silver=+/- 10%, none=+/1 20%
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