@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Cheatpocalypse:
@Dragoon said in The Cheatpocalypse:
@Zerosquare said in The Cheatpocalypse:
It reminds me about a possibly-apocryphal-but-credible story.
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The explanation was that the manufacturer had ed him, and sold the resistors close the center value as ±1% precision for a higher price. And the lesson was: don't rely on characteristics that are not explicitly documented, even if they seem natural. After all, the resistors were only advertised as being within ±5% tolerance, and they were.
This is essentially what chip manufacturers do.
Also, power distribution. In some places in Europe, voltage is still 220V even 20 years after it was officially raised to 230V.
The way I heard it, that was a compromise to accommodate the difference between the UK (240V +/- 10V) the rest of the EU (220V +/- 10V), with the compromise being 230V +/- 20V, so that nobody needed to change. Now that we in the EU are rid of the UK, there's no need for this nonsense any more.
EDIT: forgot the icon.