How to determine direction to read resistor color codes
The first thing to consider is that only certain colored bands are used to indicate tolerances; such bands are always read last. The colors used to tolerances are as follows:


Brown  ±1%
Red    ±2%
Green  ±0.5%
Blue   ±0.25%
Violet ±0.1%
Gray   ±0.05%
Gold   ±5%
Silver ±10%


Since this resistor has a white band at one end, you would start at that end since it is not a valid band color to indicate tolerance. Therefore this resistor has a value of 984 Ohms ±1%.

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