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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:40:14 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:

>> 
> "resistor color coding"!! Now there's a flash from the past .....
> 
> Black,		Black
> Boys,		Brown
> Rape,		Red
> Our,		Orange
> Young,		Yellow
> Girls,		Green
> Blessed,	Blue
> Virginity,	Violet
> Gone,		Grey
> West.		White
> 
> The Mnemonic we used back then might not be P.C. today but it worked then!!
>

Then you'll need a mnemonic to remember the mnemonic ...

https://xkcd.com/992/

I use a hand-held carboard device that contains wheels that are
dialed to line up the colors and produce the correct value.

E-parts stores, which are no more, used to give those gadgets
away for free.

A good GNU/Linux scripting challenge would be to code a little Bash/Perl
script to cough up the correct value.


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