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> So having .1 s (not .1s!)… What does this distinction mean?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> So having .1 s (not .1s!)…
What does this distinction mean?
- positr0n 5y agoMaybe gumby is talking about the difference between 0.1s as a time duration vs the concept of time durations with tenths of a second precision? I have trouble parsing it too.
- blaze33 5y agoProbably the common typographic rule prescribing a space between the numerical value and its unit (cf. https://english.stackexchange.com/q/2794/40139 https://english.stackexchange.com/q/2794/40139).
- aj7 5y agoWhich is utterly dying.
- gumby 5y agoCertainly not in science and engineering.
- chrisseaton 5y agoIt’s very hard to type as you need a non-breaking space.
- dylan604 5y agoThe first (.1 s) is the written method of one-tenth of a second. The second is basic written algebra for one-tenth the value of s factorial (to be pedantic with the exclamation point). Kind of like the pseudo-math joke around xmas when people write Ho Ho Ho as Ho^3 when it should be (Ho)^3 otherwise it's just Hooo.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI'm pretty sure the exclamation mark is just punctuation and it's supposed to be ".1 s" vs. ".1s"
- dylan604 5y agohence my parenthetical comment
- Dylan16807 5y agoOh. I didn't realize that by "pedantic" you meant you were giving the wrong answer. Because the real answer is just as pedantic.
- parsecs 5y agoAnother guess at "(not .1s!)": Maybe it's to conform to the proper usage of SI units with the space like 100 kg, 45 m/s, 20 kV/ns, and etc...