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I've been robbed! (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Instead of that we should protest against si k should be K

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(Since this is SI it's powers of 10^3 not 2^10 when going one level up)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Big K is Kelvins (temperature), so the multiplier had to be little k

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

How unfortunate However, KiB

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Wait until you find out about Calories vs calories

[+] [email protected] -13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and μ should be u maybe.... why throw in a random non-latin character? is it for the sake of anti-anglocentrism?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can't tell if this is sarcasm (I've been on the internet too much today sorry) but just in case the Greek μ (mu) stands for "micro" since 'm' is already used for "milli"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah, i get that, but many people just use u because its more accessible (ascii and qwerty compatible), similar to writing μBittorrent as uBittorrent. imo i dont think its too big of a deal if it doesnt match the word micro, since μ is already a bit of a stretch. this is just my opinion, im not advocating for a SI reform or anything :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

μ is not a stretch at all, it's literally the first character of the word micro. (Mu, iota, kappa, rho, omega). Similar to how other scientific words are derived from their original language.

It doesn't matter, most people will understand you if you write um instead of μm, because it isn't ambiguous.