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Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NightmareQueenJune 2 points 1 month ago

I am flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't even have to be the military

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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