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| Cryptoengineer to Lynn McGuire |
| Re: xkcd: Metric Tip |
| 07 Nov 25 12:34:06 |
XPost: rec.arts.comics.strips From: petertrei@gmail.com On 11/6/2025 2:21 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > xkcd: Metric Tip > https://www.xkcd.com/3164/ > > No, no, no, no. > > I write software for a living and just added pressure dimensional units > number 25 and 26, mH2O (meters of H2O) and mH2Og (meters of H2O gauge). > Mixing dimensional units is a very bad thing for programmers, we will > screw it up. > > Explained at: > https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3164:_Metric_Tip OK, I'll bite: What's the difference between the two? pt --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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