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Mike Coon[_2_]

In article ,
says...

I know that K ohms means 1000 ohms. But this is written as follows
(directly from the schematic) (except they use the ohm symbol and have
the +/- symbol printed one on top of the other)

Pot, 20K (ohm symbol) +/- 20%, K-taper

Multiples of 1000 are written "k" not "K". There is an erroneous belief
that capital multipliers are 1 and lower case means divisors. This rule
works OK except for 1000...

Mike.