Re: Resistor Colour-code Calculator

[RobertL]

I was taught "willingly" not "without".

'Bad' Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Willingly.

R

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its the 7 colours of the spectrum, with black for nought, brown for one (halfway between black and red) grey for eight and white for nine.

I never had any problems, or need for mnemonics.

After a while the coses were second nature for preferred values in the E20 range anyway.

Had to think a bit for high precision sometimes.