I was asked to find the four colour stripes of a 1M ohm (tolerance of 5%)  My question now is don't we have 2 options? I came up with:   Black(0) Brown(1) Blue(x1M) Gold (5%)  Brown(1) Black(0) Green(x100K) Gold(5%)   Is there one right and one wrong or are both of these correct?
I'm taking an electronic circuit analysis class, and I was asked to give the color of the 3rd band of a 1MΩ resistor. My answer was blue, thinking it could be black-brown-blue (01 * 1MΩ), but the automated quiz said the correct answer was green (brown-black-green).  So I did some research, thinking there were just multiple correct answers, and I read in a few places that the first band on a resistor is never black (0). Why is this? Does a black first band have some other meaning? It would really help me remember it if I knew the history or reasoning behind it.  This question has been answered. For further reading on zero-ohm resistors mentioned in the answers and comments here, I found these questions and answers helpful:
Template Hierarchy: confused with index.php, front-page.php, home.php I'm really confused with index.php, home.php and front-page.php. In many cases even though I had an index.php, I overwrite it with front-page.php. But recently, I became aware about home.php.   What's the difference between the home.php and index.php? What's the ideal condition to use a home.php than an index.php? What's the ideal condition to use a front-page.php? When I'm using a front-page.php then what specific task an index.php is doing for me then?   I've read the  in Codex. Please don't mix my question with Page Templates, I understand 'em, alHamduLILLAH. Why does jQuery or a DOM method such as getElementById not find the element? Isle vs. Island Some islands are called isle like "Isle of Man", "Isle of Tortuga" and the "British Isles". Other islands are called island, like "Island of Malta" or "Island of Cyprus".  What is the difference between the words? How to know if a land mass confined by water is called an isle or an island? At the end of the movie we are shown      a bowl with berries in it and Seneca Crane looked like he was locked in a room with them and was supposed to eat them. Did he eat them?   Why did that happen? What apps are people using to record voice meetings on the iPad? I'm looking to do some light recording of voice conversations and field recordings on my iPad using the built in microphone.    seems to be the obvious Apple solution, but is too heavy for my needs. By the time I set up a new project, turn off the metronome, etc..., I find myself wishing I just had  running on my iPad.   I don't mind paying for the app, but wondered what people are using for both light voice recording as well as longer and more numerous recording / light editing where some tagging and filing might be possible. traveller's cheques; customer's requirements: use of the singular Saxon genitive (and the plural attributive) for association May I ask if the following sentence is grammatical?      Our remit is to conduct research on customer's requirements.   In my understanding, as 'customer' is a countable noun, so the plural form 'customers''' should be used instead for this general reference (without specification of certain customers).   However, I know that we can say 'traveller's cheques' - e.g.,      Traveller's cheques are available at the bank.    In this sense, actually can we say 'customer's requirements' in the first case? Display historical characters "uͤ", "oͤ" and "aͤ"? Word that describes being "patriotic" for something that is not a country? I'm looking for a word that is similar to patriotic but does not relate to one's country (or state).  For what it's worth, I'm specifically referring to "overly patriotic" in a negative sense, to describe someone who has a overly sentimental/cultural or otherwise less-than-rational attachment or devotion to something and makes it part of their very identity. A common example might be an extremely zealous football fan. I would like to convert tab to spaces in gVim. I added the following line to my _vimrc:  set tabstop=2   It works to stop at two spaces but it still looks like one tab key is inserted (I tried to use the h key to count spaces afterwards).  I'm not sure what should I do to make gVim convert tabs to spaces? What really allows airplanes to fly? What aerodynamic effects actually contribute to producing the lift on an airplane?  I know there's a common belief that lift comes from the Bernoulli effect, where air moving over the wings is at reduced pressure because it's forced to travel further than air flowing under the wings. But I also know that this is wrong, or at best a minor contribution to the actual lift. The thing is, none of the many sources I've seen that discredit the Bernoulli effect explain what's actually going on, so I'm left wondering. Why do airplanes actually fly? Is this something that can be explained or summarized at a level appropriate for someone who isn't trained in fluid dynamics?  (Links to further reading for more detail would also be much appreciated) I want to see all URLs that for packages that would be downloaded for apt install &lt;pkg&gt; without actually installing the package.  Normally, the URLs can be extracted from the screen output after installing the package (as above).  An example of a URL I want to list:    Is it only possible to get such list of URLs beforehand by looking through all the apt's package source lists? If I want my app to behave differently on a jailbroken iPhone, how would I go about determining this? How to find the number of automorphisms on $\mathbb Z_2\times \mathbb Z_4$ Well, I was trying find out the number of group homomorphisms from $U(20)$ onto $U(15)$ which I reduce to the problem of finding the number of automorphisms for $\mathbb Z_2\times \mathbb Z_4$. But don't know how shall I proceed.   Any help will be appreciated. Say, for example, you and a group of people were all sailing out in the ocean and something happens...then you say,  "I guess we are all in the same boat"  You are literally in the same boat with everyone else, and your current situation is the same as everyone else.  Now such a phrase can be applied literally and figuratively. I was wondering if there was a word that would mean both literally and figuratively. I know this is a tad bit of an oxymoron, but I was curious to see if there was such an "all encompassing" word for this. I've tried searching for this question but couldn't find it on stackexchange. This is a common type of interview question; I ran into it doing brain teasers on a probability puzzles app, and if you fine people agree with my logic, I will inform the app developer that his/her answers are incorrect.   The problem is essentially this:  You are sentenced to death for thievery. The King is magnanimous and decides to put your fate in the hands of chance. You are given $100$ white marbles and 100 black marbles, and $2$ urns. The king will choose an urn at random and pull out a single marble at random; if the marble is white, you live, if its black, you die. If you place the marbles in the best way possible, what is your probability of survival?  I started with the base case: $100$ white marbles in one urn, $100$ black marbles in the other. This comes down to a $50$-$50$ chance of survival. I then worked my way to deciding that placing $1$ white marble in one urn and $99$ white marbles + $100$ black marbles in the other urn would be the "best way possible", which yields the following:  $$P(\text{Survival}) = \frac{1}{2}(1+\frac{99}{199}) \approx .749$$  Selecting $1$ of $2$ urns at random gives $\frac{1}{2}$, the urn containing $1$ marble gives $1$, and the other that contains $99$ white marbles and $100$ black marbles gives $\frac{99}{199}$ because there are $99$ possible white marbles to select out of $199$ total marbles.  The app claims that the correct answer is $\frac{1}{2}(1+\frac{99}{200}) \approx .748$   I see where the $200$ comes from, but I do not think it is right to say that there are $200$ marbles in the other urn. Who is correct? Book identification: technologically-enhanced man (1970s/80s YA) Cannot add custom launcher to Ubuntu Dock ('Add to Favorites' option does not show up) I have a custom .desktop file: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Terminal=false Icon[en_US]=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.png Name[en_US]=IntelliJ Exec=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.sh Name=IntelliJ Icon=/home/alex/bin/idea-IC-173.4127.27/bin/idea.png  Output of ls -lha .local/share/applications/intellij.desktop: -rwx--x--x 1 alex alex 248 Dez 30 10:54 .local/share/applications/intellij.desktop  Answers posted to a previous question () don't work for me. I can find this launcher in Activities and I can double click on that file and IntelliJ will start. Nevertheless, I cannot add this launcher as a favorite to the dock. The option does not show up. I've just installed Ubuntu and I need either video, wireless, or some sort of other manufacturer (non-opensource) driver. How can I run the tool that will fetch all of these for me? I'd like graphical instructions.  Related: Is there an old, rarely used word which means "an archaic word"? Scenario description  Lets assume both containers have a capacity of 300 litres.  One is a vertical tube  as shown in pic 1  Other one is more or less a V shaped containers as shown in pic 2  Both are at ground level  Question  No doubt that whole weight of 300 litres will act on the base of the tube (pic 1). But will the weight of the whole 300 litres act on the base of the container as shown in pic 2?  I.e if you keep both the containers on a weighing scale, for sure, it will show a weight of approx. 300 kg each.  But what I'm asking is whether the weight of whole 300 litres acts on the base of container 2 (since the container's walls are slanting, as opposed to the walls of the tube in pic 1).  If the whole weight will not act on the base of the container, can you state the reasoning and also the principle, so that I can further get to know about it?  Pic 1             |         |                    |         |            |         |            |         |            |         |            |         |            |_________|   Pic 2           \              /           \            /            \          /             \________/