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Default OT-ish: resistor value solver

Andy Champ wrote:
Tim S wrote:

I thought the E12 scale was specifically developed so you could get close
enough (TM) to almost anything you practically want with just two
resistors - series or parallel.

Or is that another factoid in my myth database?


Each one is 20% more (roughly) than the previous one.

that being the sort of tolerance on them anyway, when first introduced.

Its a log scale.

Andy