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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:34:21 +1100
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On 27/10/2024 2:22 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:54:04 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:45:11 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:34:29 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "piglet" <erichpwagner@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:vf3ntu$i9cd$1@dont-email.me...
>>>>> On 20/10/2024 7:59 pm, Edward Rawde wrote:
>>>>>> "john larkin" <JL@gct.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:2rjahj1m5itht9k5nlh5p9q11onumbbb5s@4ax.com...
>>>>>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:32:45 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I'm measuring 218 ohms between points A and B in this diagram,
>>>>>>>>> what is the value of Rx?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://disk.yandex.com/i/hxjWx0tDUCzxiA
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 517 Ohms.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does R330 mean 0.33 ohms?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hate that sort of notation, like 2k47.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I keep having difficulty not using it in LTSpice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 0.33 ohms would be 0R33
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> LT Spice will happily accept 2k47 for 2470 ohms - you can even use
>>>>> 0meg33 if you want for 330k in the old Soviet way
>>>>
>>>> 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? :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> piglet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> Does good food go with bad electronics?
> 
> I guess not. Russia has bad food and bad electronics.

France has great food, as I got to find out when Cambridge Instruments 
bought Thompson-CSF's shaped-beam electron beam microfabricator, whose 
electronics were dire.

We were sold it as a pre-production prototype, and it turned out to be a 
proof of principle machine.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney