Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso"
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Jan Panteltje wrote:

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And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
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better
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  2k2

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What's the point of that?

 
Looks better in big diagrams? (debatable I know)
Easier to draw by hand?
Takes less space?
 
 

Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?

 
That is no argument, so were petrol powered cars..
 
 

A rectangle could be anything.

 
Except in a drawn circuit with an R1234 type identifier
or some value next to it like 9k1.

But you then have to read the identifier before you know what the
component is.  The whole point of a symbol is that it is symbolic, so
you can scan over a circuit and see the general outlay without having to
read what every component is.


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