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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by Scarblac on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:19PM (#19477113)
So one day someone will write the improvement and call it milli, but then what? Is there a prefix for 10^0? Do these people not plan ahead?
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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by blattimwind on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:25PM (#19477146)
Well you can use some of the convenience steps around 1, e.g. centi and deci and then skip the 1.0 and go straight to deca and hecto.
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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by sandov on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:55PM (#19477344)
You can call it one, or alternatively:
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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by klyrs on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:20PM (#19477840)
How about uno
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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by earenndil on Sunday March 24, 2019 @07:35PM (#19479379)
Well, it seems we've already skipped to kilo[1], so it'll have to be mega.

1: https://github.com/antirez/kilo

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by tomsmeding on Sunday March 24, 2019 @02:26PM (#19477891)
EINE [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EINE_and_ZWEI

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Re:GNU Nano 4.0 by the8472 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:53PM (#19477332)
unit
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