Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso"
<fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote in
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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.