What's with the odd numbering on capacitors these days?

Absolutely, they are from raw production runs.

ALL of the run gets culled. They end up in the bin that matches how close they are to a hard value.

So, it is a big bubble sort. Like letting aggregate fall through successively sized seines.

They probably get baked first to settle (anneal) the tempco in all of them.

Metal films are a lot easier to keep a run in a more tightly referenced group or even laser trim in real time on the run before they get encapsulated. Bulk medium carbon comps are done as mentioned above.

How many decades did it take you to grasp this basic premise?

I ask because some of the crap you spew indicates a lack of any clue whatsoever.

If there was much of this still going on (see what comes out of the process and bin them by value) then there should be some really good deals on weird values that nobody uses.

You don't get it.

Try to find carbon comps. They are around, but not in volume, and metal films as was stated, do not need such a culling process as they TRIM their values. They are only manufactured after discreet mass volume orders, so they are virtually no longer made, unless you are buying several M pieces of them. You do know what the M stands for, right?

And no, there would NOT be odd parts around, because it will ALWAYS fit within a given hard value's tolerance range.

You need to think a bit first.

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