• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    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?

    Also: Hz/dpt.

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      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?

      EDIT: Also, TIL about dpt. Thanks!

      A dioptre (British spelling) or diopter (American spelling), symbol dpt, is a unit of measurement with dimension of reciprocal length, equivalent to one reciprocal metre, 1 dpt = 1 m^−1.

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        3 months ago

        TIL about dpt

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

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          3 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.