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Renard series are a system of preferred numbers dividing an interval from 1 to 10 into 5, 10, 20, or 40 steps.[1] This set of preferred numbers was
Examples
proposed in 1877 by French army engineer Colonel Charles Renard.[2][3][4] His system was adopted by the ISO in 1949[5] to form the ISO
Alternative series Recommendation R3, first published in 1953[6] or 1954, which evolved into the international standard ISO 3.[1] The factor between two consecutive
See also numbers in a Renard series is approximately constant (before rounding), namely the 5th, 10th, 20th, or 40th root of 10 (approximately 1.58, 1.26, 1.12, and

References 1.06, respectively), which leads to a geometric sequence. This way, the maximum relative error is minimized if an arbitrary number is replaced by the
nearest Renard number multiplied by the appropriate power of 10. One application of the Renard series of numbers is to current rating of electric fuses.
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Another common use is the voltage rating of capacitors (e.g. 100 V, 160 V, 250 V, 400 V, 630 V).

Base series [ edit ]

The most basic R5 series consists of these five rounded numbers, which are powers of the fifth root of 10, rounded to two digits. The Renard numbers are
not always rounded to the closest three-digit number to the theoretical geometric sequence:

R5: 1.00 1.60 2.50 4.00 6.30

Examples [ edit ]

If some design constraints were assumed so that two screws in a gadget should be placed between 32 mm and 55 mm apart, the resulting length
would be 40 mm, because 4 is in the R5 series of preferred numbers.
If a set of nails with lengths between roughly 15 and 300 mm should be produced, then the application of the R5 series would lead to a product
repertoire of 16 mm, 25 mm, 40 mm, 63 mm, 100 mm, 160 mm, and 250 mm long nails.
If traditional English wine cask sizes had been metricated, the rundlet (18 gallons, ca 68 liters), barrel (31.5 gal., ca 119 liters), tierce (42 gal., ca 159
liters), hogshead (63 gal., ca 239 liters), puncheon (84 gal., ca 318 liters), butt (126 gal., ca 477 liters) and tun (252 gal., ca 954 liters) could have
become 63 (or 60 by R″5), 100, 160 (or 150), 250, 400, 630 (or 600) and 1000 liters, respectively.

Alternative series [ edit ]

If a finer resolution is needed, another five numbers are added to the series, one after each of the original R5 numbers, and one ends up with the R10
series. These are rounded to a multiple of 0.05. Where an even finer grading is needed, the R20, R40, and R80 series can be applied. The R20 series is
usually rounded to a multiple of 0.05, and the R40 and R80 values interpolate between the R20 values, rather than being powers of the 80th root of 10
rounded correctly. In the table below, the additional R80 values are written to the right of the R40 values in the column named "R80 add'l". The R40
numbers 3.00 and 6.00 are higher than they "should" be by interpolation, in order to give rounder numbers.

In some applications more rounded values are desirable, either because the numbers from the normal series would imply an unrealistically high accuracy,
or because an integer value is needed (e.g., the number of teeth in a gear). For these needs, more rounded versions of the Renard series have been
defined in ISO 3. In the table below, rounded values that differ from their less rounded counterparts are shown in bold.

least rounded medium rounded most rounded

R5 R10 R20 R40 R80 add'l R′10 R′20 R′40 R″5 R″10 R″20 —

1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.03 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.0 1.0 1.0 —

1.06 1.09 1.05 —

1.12 1.12 1.15 1.10 1.10 1.1 —

1.18 1.22 1.20 —

1.25 1.25 1.25 1.28 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.2 1.2 —

1.32 1.36 1.30 —

1.40 1.40 1.45 1.40 1.40 1.4 —

1.50 1.55 1.50 —

1.60 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.65 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.5 1.5 1.6 —

1.70 1.75 1.70 —

1.80 1.80 1.85 1.80 1.80 1.8 —

1.90 1.95 1.90 —

2.00 2.00 2.00 2.06 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.0 2.0 —

2.12 2.18 2.10 —

2.24 2.24 2.30 2.20 2.20 2.2 —

2.36 2.43 2.40 —

2.50 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.58 2.50 2.50 2.50 2.5 2.5 2.5 —

2.65 2.72 2.60 —

2.80 2.80 2.90 2.80 2.80 2.8 —

3.00 3.07 3.00 —

3.15 3.15 3.15 3.25 3.20 3.20 3.20 3.0 3.0 —

3.35 3.45 3.40 —

3.55 3.55 3.65 3.60 3.60 3.5 —

3.75 3.87 3.80 —

4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.12 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.0 4.0 4.0 —

4.25 4.37 4.20 —

4.50 4.50 4.62 4.50 4.50 4.5 —

4.75 4.87 4.80 —

5.00 5.00 5.00 5.15 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.0 5.0 —

5.30 5.45 5.30 —

5.60 5.60 5.75 5.60 5.60 5.5 —

6.00 6.15 6.00 —

6.30 6.30 6.30 6.30 6.50 6.30 6.30 6.30 6.0 6.0 6.0 —

6.70 6.90 6.70 —

7.10 7.10 7.30 7.10 7.10 7.0 —

7.50 7.75 7.50 —

8.00 8.00 8.00 8.25 8.00 8.00 8.00 8.0 8.0 —

8.50 8.75 8.50 —

9.00 9.00 9.25 9.00 9.00 9.0 —

9.50 9.75 9.50 —

10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 — 10.0 10.0 10.0 10 10 10 —

As the Renard numbers repeat after every 10-fold change of the scale, they are particularly well-suited for use with SI units. It makes no difference whether
the Renard numbers are used with metres or millimetres. But one would need to use an appropriate number base to avoid ending up with two incompatible
sets of nicely spaced dimensions, if for instance they were applied with both inches and feet. In the case of inches and feet a root of 12 would be desirable,
n
that is, √12 where n is the desired number of divisions within the major step size of twelve. Similarly, a base of two, eight, or sixteen would fit nicely with
the binary units commonly found in computer science.

Each of the Renard sequences can be reduced to a subset by taking every nth value in a series, which is designated by adding the number n after a
slash.[4] For example, "R10″/3 (1…1000)" designates a series consisting of every third value in the R″10 series from 1 to 1000, that is, 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 30, 60,
120, 250, 500, 1000.

Such narrowing of the general original series brings the opposite idea of deepening the series and to redefine it by a strict simple formula. As the beginning
of the selected series seen higher, the {1, 2, 4, 8, ...} series can be defined as binary. That means that the R10 series can be formulated as R10 ≈ bR3 =
3
√2n , generating just 9 values of R10, just because of the kind of periodicity. This way rounding is eliminated, as the 3 values of the first period are repeated
multiplied by 2. The usual cons however is that the thousand product of such multiplication is shifted slightly: Instead of decadic 1000, the binary 1024
appears, as classics in IT. The pro is that the characteristics is now fully valid, that whatever value multiplied by 2 is also member of the series, any
rounding effectively eliminated. The multiplication by 2 is possible in R10 too, to get another members, but the long fractioned numbers complicate the R10
accuracy.

See also [ edit ]

Preferred numbers
Preferred metric sizes
1-2-5 series
E series (preferred numbers)
Logarithm
Decibel
Neper
Phon
Nominal Pipe Size (NPS)
Geometric progression

References [ edit ]

1. ^ a b ISO 3:1973-04 - Preferred Numbers - Series of Preferred Numbers . International Standards Organization (ISO). April 1973. Retrieved 2016-12-18. (Replaced:
ISO Recommendation R3-1954 - Preferred Numbers - Series of Preferred Numbers. July 1954. (July 1953))
2. ^ Kienzle, Otto Helmut [in German] (2013-10-04) [1950]. Written at Hannover, Germany. Normungszahlen [Preferred numbers]. Wissenschaftliche Normung (in
German). Vol. 2 (reprint of 1st ed.). Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag OHG. ISBN 978-3-642-99831-7. Retrieved 2017-11-01. (340 pages)
3. ^ Paulin, Eugen (2007-09-01). Logarithmen, Normzahlen, Dezibel, Neper, Phon - natürlich verwandt! [Logarithms, preferred numbers, decibel, neper, phon -
naturally related!] (PDF) (in German). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-12-18. Retrieved 2016-12-18.
4. ^ a b "preferred numbers" . Sizes, Inc. 2014-06-10 [2000]. Archived from the original on 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
5. ^ ISO 17:1973-04 - Guide to the use of preferred numbers and of series of preferred numbers . International Standards Organization (ISO). April 1973. Archived
from the original on 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2017-11-02. "[…] Preferred numbers were first utilized in France at the end of the nineteenth century. From 1877 to 1879,
Captain Charles Renard, an officer in the engineer corps, made a rational study of the elements necessary in the construction of […] aircraft. He computed the
specifications […] according to a grading system […]. Recognizing the advantage to be derived from the geometrical progression, he adopted […] a grading system
[…] that would yield a tenth multiple of the value […] after every fifth step of the series […] Renard's theory was to substitute […] more rounded but […] practical
values […] as a power of 10, positive, nil or negative. He thus obtained […] 10 16 25 40 63 100 […] continued in both directions […] by the symbol R5 […] the R10,
R20, R40 series were formed, each adopted ratio being the square root of the preceding one […] The first standardization drafts were drawn up on these bases in
Germany by the Normenausschuss der Deutschen Industrie on 13 April 1920, and in France by the Commission permanente de standardisation in document X of 19
December 1921. […] the commission of standardization in the Netherlands proposed their unification […] reached in 1931 […] in June 1932, the International
Federation of the National Standardizing Associations organized an international meeting in Milan, where the ISA Technical Committee 32, Preferred numbers, was
set up and its Secretariat assigned to France. On 19 September 1934, the ISA Technical Committee 32 held a meeting in Stockholm; sixteen nations were
represented: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
U.S.S.R. With the exception of the Spanish, Hungarian and Italian […] the other delegations accepted the draft […] Japan communicated […] its approval […] the
international recommendation was laid down in ISA Bulletin 11 (December 1935). […] After the Second World War, the work was resumed by ISO. The Technical
Committee ISO/TC 19, Preferred numbers, was set up and France again held the Secretariat. This Committee at its first meeting […] in Paris in July 1949 […]
recommended […] preferred numbers defined by […] ISA Bulletin 11, […] R5, R10, R20, R40. This meeting was attended by […] 19 […] nations: Austria, Belgium,
Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, U.S.A.,
U.S.S.R. During […] subsequent meetings in New York in 1952 and […] the Hague in 1953, […] attended also by Germany, […] series R80 was added […] The draft
thus amended became ISO Recommendation R3. […]" (Replaced: ISO Recommendation R17-1956 - Preferred Numbers - Guide to the Use of Preferred Numbers
and of Series of Preferred Numbers. 1956. (1955) and ISO R17/A1-1966 - Amendment 1 to ISO Recommendation R17-1955. 1966.)
6. ^ De Simone, Daniel V. (July 1971). U.S. Metric Study Interim Report - Engineering Standards (PDF). NBS Special Publication 345-11 (Code: XNBSA).
Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-11-03. Retrieved 2017-11-03. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

Further reading [ edit ]

Hirshfeld, Clarence Floyd; Berry, C. H. (1922-12-04). "Size Standardization by Preferred Numbers" . Mechanical Engineering. New York, USA: The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 44 (12): 791–. [1]
Hazeltine, Louis Alan (January 1927) [December 1926]. "Preferred Numbers". Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Institute of Radio
Engineers (IRE). 14 (4): 785–787. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1926.221089 . ISSN 0731-5996 .
Van Dyck, Arthur F. (February 1936). "Preferred Numbers". Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). 24 (2):
159–179. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1936.228053 . ISSN 0731-5996 . S2CID 140107818 .
Van Dyck, Arthur F. (March 1951) [February 1951]. "Preferred Numbers". Proceedings of the IRE. Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). 39 (2): 115.
doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1951.230759 . ISSN 0096-8390 .
ISO 497:1973-05 - Guide to the choice of series of preferred numbers and of series containing more rounded values of preferred numbers .
International Standards Organization (ISO). May 1973. Archived from the original on 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2017-11-02. (Replaced: ISO
Recommendation R497-1966 - Preferred Numbers - Guide to the Choice of Series of Preferred Numbers and of Series Containing More Rounded
Values of Preferred Numbers. 1966.)
Tuffentsammer, Karl; Schumacher, P. (1953). "Normzahlen – die einstellige Logarithmentafel des Ingenieurs" [Preferred numbers - the engineer's
single-digit logarithm table]. Werkstattechnik und Maschinenbau (in German). 43 (4): 156.
Tuffentsammer, Karl (1956). "Das Dezilog, eine Brücke zwischen Logarithmen, Dezibel, Neper und Normzahlen" [The decilog, a bridge between
logarithms, decibel, neper and preferred numbers]. VDI-Zeitschrift (in German). 98: 267–274.

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