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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:24:35 +0100
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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:
> >
> >> "john larkin" <JL@gct.com> wrote in message
> >news:risahjpn2kfue87dqm6t2461a966ncv9in@4ax.com...
> >
> >[...] > >
> >> > 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.
> >
> >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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