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xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units (xkcd.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/xkcd

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Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I really don't get the issue with kWh. Things are rated in W and we mostly care about the hours they're powered on. If I wanna figure out how many kWh a PC that needs 300W used in 4 hours, I multiply 300*4. If I wanna know how many joules it used, I have to do 300*4*3600. Only one of those can be done in your head in 3 seconds.

[–] LengAwaits 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

You gotta use an escape character, specifically a backslash ( \ ), when dealing with *s on lemmy.

Otherwise you end up with "stufflike this!"

When it could have been "stuff*like this*!"

ETA: Damn, you're good. Fixed it before I even finished this post!