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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:24:36 +0100
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Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:

> On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:27:24 -0400) it happened "Tom Del Rosso"
> <fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com> wrote in
> <vf5kss$v68q$2@dont-email.me>:
> 
> >Jan Panteltje wrote:
> >>
> >> And the old zig-zag symbols the US uses for resistors.....
> >> --\/\/\/\/\--------
> >>
> >> better
> >> ---====-----
> >>   2k2
> >
> >What's the point of that?
> 
> Looks better in big diagrams? (debatable I know)
> Easier to draw by hand?
> Takes less space?
> 
> 
> >Wasn't the zigzag used everywhere for 100 years?
> 
> That is no argument, so were petrol powered cars..
> 
> 
> >A rectangle could be anything.
> 
> Except in a drawn circuit with an R1234 type identifier 
> or some value next to it like 9k1.

But you then have to read the identifier before you know what the
component is.  The whole point of a symbol is that it is symbolic, so
you can scan over a circuit and see the general outlay without having to
read what every component is.


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