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Originally Posted by Username1

740K = .740meg. They are the same value....
Your auto-ranging meter just uses that display type....
Best is to use a meter without auto-range and learn it,
rely on yer brain, not a $20. meter to interpret it the right way....

That and a few other things are the reason I still like my Simpson analog meter. I get ribbed a lot by techs who find some superiority of their technical skill-set by using devices that think for them to a large degree. I couldn't even get them to use analog when we were testing some potentiometers for bad spots. In short, they didn't want to admit that they couldn't interpret multipliers or read scales. No doubt at all that in the testing of pots that the analog meter is far, far superior; yet perhaps not as accurate in other measurements. Digital and auto-range can be nice as well, but you absolutely must pay attention to detail or really bad results can be the result.