Thanks to all: Jim Weir's - October 2000 (Understanding LED lamp indicators)

Oh, OK. Now I see what you are saying...the 1% four stripers would end in
black (true) but the wrong value would end in orange for the 1% series. I
agree with that.

Jim

"Smitty" wrote in message
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JIm, you're a fine engineer, and I believe it was your product that the
OP referenced, but I've worked with the color code for a living every
day for twenty years. Perhaps I didn't state my case clearly, and we
aren't disagreeing about colors but just not communicating clearly.
Precision resistors, three significant digits plus multiplier:

180 K brown, gray, black, orange
180 ohm brown, gray, black, black