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> However metric prefixes need to be shortened to just their first letter—and B and H were already taken, ruling out bronto and hella.
Cyrillic small be (б) and Greek small chi (χ) could have been used instead.
Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix
> However metric prefixes need to be shortened to just their first letter—and B and H were already taken, ruling out bronto and hella.
I mean. I use milli/micro/nano/pico as an electrical engineer every day, and it's so intuitive to me.
But why three orders of magnitude? Why not two orders, or five?
A question... Why do humans (or at least engineers) work so well in 1,000? I mean. I use milli/micro/nano/pico as an electrical engineer every day, and it's so intuitive to me. But why three orders of magnitude? Why not two orders, or five?
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> However metric prefixes need to be shortened to just their first letter—and B and H were already taken, ruling out bronto and hella.
Lessons learned from milli and mega. Oops!
I guess that gives us new binary prefixes as well, we can now express data sizes in robibit, quebibit, robibyte and quebibyte!
A question... Why do humans (or at least engineers) work so well in 1,000? I mean. I use milli/micro/nano/pico as an electrical engineer every day, and it's so intuitive to me. But why three orders of magnitude? Why not two orders, or five?
It's a cultural thing. Chinese (and many more Asian nations) work so well in 10,000, and sometimes, it feels more natural to me as well.
Sure if you grow up with it, you have that translation basically hard-coded but it’s still not ideal.
My physics teacher always had a great way of drilling in these tidbits.