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How many Ohms would be a smallest Resistor?

How many Ohms would be a smallest Resistor?

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First of all resistors are measured in ohms (as you know) but since the ohm itslef is a very tiny resistant value, resistant values are quoted in kilo-ohms. Therefore a 1ohm resistor is typically extremely small. It is however impossible to determing the smallest resistance value since a current carrying conductor exhibits some internal resistance. Also between the numbers 0 and 1, there are an infinite array of numbers so 0,0000.0001Ohms is still not the smallest value I hope you get the point.
no such thing. You can buy accurate resistors as low as 0.001 ohms and lower, but a bar of copper would have an even lower resistance. It's like asking what is the smallest number, no matter what you pick, you can find something smaller by dividing by 2. .
in real life, the smallest resistance value that could ever exist would always be larger than zero. In theory at zero ohms, we have a short circuit which indicates max current (infinity) and zero voltage. But in real life, you could never reach zero ohms. so the smallest resistance would be 0

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