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N_Cook

On 01/02/2019 18:56, wrote:
I have never heard the term Gigaohms used with resistors. Is this a
valid term? With computer hard drives, if a drive is 1000 megabytes,
it's called one gigabyte.

Using some resistor color code software I have, it does not use that
term. For example, brown black gray says 1000M. or red red white is
listed as 22,000M

In real life I have never used any resistor with that high of a
capacity, I dont even know if they are made, but would 1G or 22G be
valid for the examples above?

I have a number of high precision multi-Gohm resistors, for calibrating
RLC meters, for when I used to repair those. They look like reed relays
at first sight, enclosed in presumably evacuated glass envelopes.