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Re:Si Units for Request Rate by DaveFlater on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:25PM (#39242530)
ISO 80000 Part 13 gives some symbols within the scope of communication technology (its scope is more narrow than its title would suggest). The standard itself is copyrighted but the quantity symbols are listed on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000#Part_13:_Informa...

See also https://www.nist.gov/publications/quantities-and-units-softw...

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Re:Si Units for Request Rate by jameshart on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:35PM (#39242655)
That is fascinating. Are there any examples of ‘fundamental laws’ expressed in these terms?
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Re:Si Units for Request Rate by DaveFlater on Saturday February 03, 2024 @12:47PM (#39242781)
Being careful to distinguish 'fundamental laws' from just 'quantities that we defined', information theory and queueing theory have some good examples of proven laws.
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