Talk:2818: Circuit Symbols

The direct link to the comic is getting a 404 error. But it appears at the xkcd.com home page. Barmar (talk) 01:31, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

The link is working now. Nitpicking (talk) 02:33, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Randall is symbolizing sheep with a coil because ... wool takes a helical shape. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wool#/media/File:Royal_Winter_Fair_Wool.jpg. Nitpicking (talk) 02:33, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

The title text is probably a reference to the classic novella "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (a common classroom reading in the US). In this novella, a young Puritan woman "sins" by having a child out of wedlock. She is punished by having to wear the letter A (for adultery). Comsmomf (talk) 02:54, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Can someone with more wiki-foo than me please put the actual images for the symbols in a new first column? Blackbearnh (talk) 03:01, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

I tried, unsuccessfully, to learn if there were "Scarlet Letters" that represented other sins ['A' is mentioned to be for 'Adultery', Maybe 'O' for Onanism?] These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For (talk) 03:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

From what I understand, ‘BJ’ had its fair share of supporters. 172.70.210.247 04:47, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

What exactly does "the opposite of capacitors" mean in this context? I'm not that familiar with EE, but from my limited understanding of inductors this is an incorrect and confusing statement. 172.70.126.79 08:07, 22 August 2023 (UTC)