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Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (8 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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

[–] NightmareQueenJune 2 points 3 weeks ago

I am flabbergasted.

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