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Re:Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem by Kerrick on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:01PM (#37866078)
Numerical ones don’t seem to exist outside of IT, but other fields do the same strategy of abbreviating common long words by keeping only a letter or two. The non-numerical way is to just replace the rest with an “x” like “txn” for “transaction” in finance or “pax” for “passengers” in transportation or “sx” for “symptoms” in medicine.
Re:Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem by accoil on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:29AM (#37870367)
Neat, that's one mystery solved. I have seen "x" used like that, but didn't know how it worked.