Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:45:11 -0700, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:34:29 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
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On 20/10/2024 7:59 pm, Edward Rawde wrote:

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On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:32:45 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
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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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LT Spice will happily accept 2k47 for 2470 ohms - you can even use
0meg33 if you want for 330k in the old Soviet way

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The reason I try to avoid it outside locations where it's not questioned
is because there's always someone who will ask what does 2k7 mean? :)
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piglet
 
 

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The other legacy of unreliable dots (I suppose they used to fall off
drawings 50 years ago) is people who refuse to make a clean 4-way
connection with one dot. They insist on using two 3-ways, two dots with
a clumsy offset.

The British and American dots have always been fine. The German ones used
to be very reliable, too - until they pooled their symbols with countries
like Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Portugal.