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Re:How I Got My Laser Eye Injury by nayuki on Friday August 02, 2024 @01:41AM (#41136378)
<twitches in metric prefix>

60 micrometres. "micron" is a deprecated irregular word that is unlike every other scaling of the metre.

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Re:How I Got My Laser Eye Injury by Incipient on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:33AM (#41137095)
Correct me if I'm wrong "micron" IS metric (decimal based system) but it's NOT an SI unit?
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Re:How I Got My Laser Eye Injury by sgarland on Friday August 02, 2024 @08:47AM (#41138413)
Listen, our shoe sizes are measured in barleycorns, so we’re doing the best we can to adopt metric in places.
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Re:How I Got My Laser Eye Injury by subpub47 on Friday August 02, 2024 @10:37AM (#41139114)
Eh. At least this one is just a name. I don't know how precise we have to be in a blog post, you know? They're the exact same unit.
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