alt Hacker NewsI, too, had wondered; this seems particularly common in the US. My best theory is that in rough handwriting, n and u/μ can look pretty similar, and everyone sort of agreed to only use u to reduce ambiguity.
I, too, had wondered; this seems particularly common in the US. My best theory is that in rough handwriting, n and u/μ can look pretty similar, and everyone sort of agreed to only use u to reduce ambiguity.
I heard this, and have witnessed it. One of my first jobs included board rework. There were several times when I had to go ask if they wrote a uF or an nF. The response was always "obviously a uF", because nobody uses nF!