Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by nayuki on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:47AM
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Capital T is tesla, a unit of magnetic flux density.
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by _zoltan_ on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:47PM
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very important comment /s
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by segfaultbuserr on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:07PM
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Old habits die hard. I still occasionally see some engineering veterans who use the capital letter "S" for seconds (and they would write "nS" instead of "ns" for nanoseconds) - even in chip datasheets. And when I was reading a textbook one day, I also noticed that the author, an expert with a life career at Bell Labs, just couldn't write MHz properly, and instead wrote "Mhz".
In their time, Siemens and Hertz had not even been added to the SI system yet, I imagine they would speak in terms of mhos and megacycles back then.
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by BenjiWiebe on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:48PM
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At least mhos and megacycles are unambiguous, unlike S or T.
Re:In 1930, the 22M-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated ...
by burnished on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:46PM
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Another commenter mentioned T is teslas, seems like the abbreviation for a ton depends on which ton you are talking about (wikipedia lists several and not all of them are mass/weight!).
From a conversion the article uses I believe they are using the metric ton (aka megagram) which abbreviates to the lower case t. The article you reference does not seem to ever abbreviate 'ton' and I suspect that may have been done intentionally to avoid running into this issue? Its what I would have done, anyway.
I don't think this impacts the readability of your comment I just thought it was a shame that the other comment didnt go all the way and attempt to describe correct useage.
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