Thanks, I hate it
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renzev@lemmy.world 3 months agorockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Saw a video using mHz recently and it took way too long to realise the readout was correct and nort a misspelling of MHz …
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
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🖖125 millibits
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
mbps, milli bits per second
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
That’s interesting. Obviously, you’d put a center dot to disambiguate millihertz from meter-hertz, but I can’t recall ever having learned a rule about that. So some combinations of units are inherently ambiguous?
renzev@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Something that occurs once a hour has a frequency of 277.777… μHz
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
You know, I always figured optometry involved like, super complicated math and shit.
Turns out it’s just basic arithmetic.
Kinda like programming, in a way.
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Yeah, from my experience ordering glasses, it’s mostly about making sure the lenses are aligned with my retinas to focus the light in the right spots. All the numbers are just a way to formalize those measurements so that the lens maker gets it right
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Speed as meter per hertz is a rather odd case, like with a machine that goes in discrete steps.
In any case, I never use implied multiplication (and others) and always simply put everything where it should be.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Tell me you don’t glasses without telling me you don’t need glasses :D