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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 个月前

Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 6 个月前
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  • Captain Aggravated
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    At least a couple of these are uppercase and some are lowercase, but yeah.

    It’s a bit like a fun game: Ask someone in the military to hand you an “M1” and see what they come up with.

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      Celsius is also basically always accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that “℃” is a single Unicode character.

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        Wat

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          I think that’s only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

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            One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.

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        I am flabbergasted.

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      Doesn’t even have to be the military

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        For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!

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