Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:57:33 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Edward Rawde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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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.

 
I wasn't aware that there was a difference between European and american
decimal points.

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There is a difference between English-speking ones and French-speaking
ones: the French ones look like commas.

 
Do French engineers use the same convention on their schematics?

I don't know, but the comma is in everyday use as a decimal point.

I can't recall ever seeing a French schematic, actually.

I can - and it was dreadful !  It was of a laboratory R.F. signal
generator and they had put the earthing point in the centre with the
various sections of the circuit radiating like the spokes of a wheel
around it.  The HT line ran around the outside.

I don't think they do it like that nowadays.


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