I was reading the datasheet of a digital multimeter (DMM) and I came across a resistance value terminated with 3/4, like so:
You can find it at the bottom of page 1-3 of the this document.
What does it mean?
Asked
Active
Viewed 1,343 times
12
-
11Ω2 and Ω4 refer to 2-wire and 4-wire resistance measurement techniques, respectively, while 100kΩ is just a resistance value. – Dave Tweed Dec 12 '22 at 12:31
-
14Oh boy, mojibake strikes again... – ThreePhaseEel Dec 12 '22 at 23:49
-
Same substitution appears throughout the document, not just page 1-3. – Toby Speight Dec 13 '22 at 08:24
-
3@TobySpeight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake (in short: character encoding messed-up during decoding/typesetting). Just for the people that didn't know the term since now (as I did) :-) – LorenzoDonati4Ukraine-OnStrike Dec 13 '22 at 11:36
-
I knew Hogwarts wizards had a lightning spell, but didn't know they went as far as publishing some DMM datasheets :) – Dmitry Grigoryev Dec 13 '22 at 13:12
1 Answers
26
That's just a "typo" caused by an incorrect encoding specified for the characters/text of the datasheet, or the wrong font; something went wrong with the typesetting.
Just read "Ω" where it says "¾".
ocrdu
- 8,705
- 21
- 30
- 42