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• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨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?

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  • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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?

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    • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Something that occurs once a hour has a frequency of 277.777… μHz

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    • Technus@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL about dpt

      Tell me you don’t glasses without telling me you don’t need glasses :D

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      • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I actually do have glasses, I just never bothered learning about any of the technical details behind my lenses. Optometrist measured my eyes, I chose the cheapest frame the store offered, came back a week later to pick up the glasses and that’s about it.

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    • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks, I hate it

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• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ✋ 1 byte

  🖖125 millibits

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mbps, milli bits per second

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 …

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Metre hertz? Lol

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Millihertz

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• skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtu.be/kkfIXUjkYqE

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