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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by Jernik on Thursday January 16, 2020 @04:54PM (#22069424)
They used miles and years right before that, so I'm not sure how it is confusing that m/yr is miles/year
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by microtherion on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:41PM (#22069808)
"mile" is typically abbreviated as "mi".
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by OnlineGladiator on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:18PM (#22069623)
It's confusing because the way the units are represented is inconsistent.
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by Dylan16807 on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:05AM (#22072509)
You find the 'yr' confusing?
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by OnlineGladiator on Friday January 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#22080414)
No, they interchanged miles with m, and in a weird unintuitive way at that. m isn't even standard for miles, it's standard for meters, and just before that miles was written instead of shortened - it's not just confusing it's also terribly presented. At least yr is intuitive, nothing about m is easily understood even given the context (which is why so many other people are complaining about it).
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by Dylan16807 on Friday January 17, 2020 @09:44PM (#22081858)
Okay, though that sounds like you're actually objecting for a different reason than inconsistency.

But I will note that "m" is used in the common distance-over-time unit of mph.

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by CydeWeys on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:42PM (#22071915)
That, and also m=meter, mi=mile.
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