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(08-12-2016 06:47 PM)matthiaspaul Wrote:  

(06-13-2016 07:05 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  I couldn't find any reference to this way of writing being used or endorsed by any group or organization.

I have seen this convention to replace the decimal dot only in schematics and BOMs, and I always wondered were it originated. This Wikipedia article discusses its usage in conjunction with the currency symbol cifrão ("2$50")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cifrão

Perhaps this hint will help someone to track down its origin.

Greetings,

Matthias

Apparently it is written in the British BS-1852 (70s? This would somewhat fit to the first appearances of the marking style to old schematics (according more google)) that specifies the coding used for Resistor and Capacitor values. I have no copy of it at my disposal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1852

There were reply that did point out this BS-1852.
http://electronics.stackexchange.com/que...r-resistor

Here is it "more clearly" written
http://www.matrixtsl.com/courses/ecc/ind...storCoding