Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

?On a sunny day (Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:17:37 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:18:29 +0530, Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.invalid>
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On 21-10-2024 12:46 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:12:22 -0700, john larkin wrote:
 

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:59:18 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:32:45 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
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On 10/20/24 19:18, Cursitor Doom wrote:

John Larkin has from time to time posted some elementary questions
he likes to torture his job applicants with. I'd like to propose one
of my own.
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If I'm measuring 218 ohms between points A and B in this diagram,
what is the value of Rx?
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https://disk.yandex.com/i/hxjWx0tDUCzxiA

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517 Ohms.
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Jeroen Belleman

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Does R330 mean 0.33 ohms?
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I hate that sort of notation, like 2k47.

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I keep having difficulty not using it in LTSpice.
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0.33 ohms would be 0R33
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Unless you believe in physics/SI notation.
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So is R330 the reference designator?

 
Sorry, foreign notation. It's 330 ohms and 47 ohms.

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Thought so.
Personally, I sometimes use the European style of placing decimal values
after the unit name, especially when space is limited as in a packed
schematic. 4k7 takes up slightly less space than 4.7k *and* there's no
chance of missing the decimal point. Likewise values like 6n8

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Maybe european decimal points slide off drawings and fall on the
floor. Robust American decimal points and schematic connect dots don't
do that.
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How are things priced in a grocery store? Is the 'euros' symbol
straddled by numbers on both sides?

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