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> (10-21 seconds) You’d imagine that a CMS for a university website would support formatting of something as simple as an exponent. Instead what you get is a c
by tobr 6y ago
> (10-21 seconds)
You’d imagine that a CMS for a university website would support formatting of something as simple as an exponent. Instead what you get is a claim that a zeptosecond is somewhere between 10 and 21 seconds.
- RandallBrown 6y agoI had a job in college that was basically keeping articles in a CMS for a couple of departments up to date. The only formatting I got was whatever I could do with HTML and CSS back in 2008. There was a sort of rich text editor you could also use, but it was really hard to make it do what you wanted.
- saagarjha 6y ago<sup>?
- kingbirdy 6y agoNot much, <sup> with you?
- 082349872349872 6y ago<ol> <rt>. <u>?
- sp332 6y agoThe <sup> HTML tag has been available just about forever. Firefox version 1 supported it and I can't find a version of IE that didn't.
- vesinisa 6y agoSeems to originate in HTML 3.2 (January 1997)
- tedunangst 6y agoCan also use the javascript .sup() function for post-html bloggers.
- munk-a 6y agoAt the same time, a lot of CMSes specifically block HTML input for security purposes - the article author may have had access to stripped down markdown or possibly a docx => html converter built into the CMS.
- GloriousKoji 6y agoI instantly knew it was incorrect but it took me way to long to realize it's suppose to be 1E-21 or 10^-21 seconds.
- tardismechanic 6y agoWay too many zeptoseconds ;-)
- kzrdude 6y agoIs the 1e-21 notation ever used in handwriting? I have never seen it but I'm curious. It was not used in my schooling.
- cyphar 6y agoI've not seen it used in handwriting I think it's mostly used for digital inputs (including some calculators). The most common usage in handwriting I've seen is like 1.5×10³² (=1.5e32).
- dilap 6y agoyou can even just do it with unicode 10⁻²¹ seconds (tho tbh it looks a bit janky -- but better than "10-21"!)
- cyrrus 6y agoThis is somebodies scope creep “Of course it should communicate detailed chemical bonds and protein folding!”
- geodel 6y ago10-21 seconds would be the shortest time I spend on social media in one session.