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Electronic parts notation: I might have written some schematics in the old-fashioned way of marking parts, that’s been in use in that part of the world where I grew up, for more than half a century. It might be a little bit confusing to the western readers, so here’s a short explanation.
This system avoids the decimal point and Greek symbols to make printing easier. It stems from the old days, when the basic unit for plotting out resistance was 1 ohm and 1 picofarad for capacitance. So to save space, a kilo/mega/giga suffix (k, M, G) was used in place of the decimal point.
In other words, out of the examples below, all combinations are possible but usually the shortest form is used:
0.68 ohm resistor = 0R68
22 kiloohm resistor = 22k = M022 = 0M022 = 22000R = 22000 …
2.2 megaohm resistor = 2M2 = 2200k …
220 nanofarad capacitor = 220n = 220k (“kilopicofarad”) = M22 (0.22 “megapicofarad”) = 0M22 …
500 nanofarad capacitor = 500n = M5
680 picofarad capacitor = 680p = 680 = k68 = 0k68 = n68 = 0n68 …
5.6 millifarad capacitor = 5G6 = 5600M …
1 farad capacitor = 1F = 1000G …
… and so on.
Thanks for understanding.