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I kind of like where you're going with that, it can be frustrating when we use worse notation due to historical accidents (see also, perhaps: direction of conve
by heisenzombie 2y ago
I kind of like where you're going with that, it can be frustrating when we use worse notation due to historical accidents (see also, perhaps: direction of conventional current flow, pi vs tau, all the bad differentiation syntaxes).
Also, thinking in terms of log quantities makes me think of Fermi estimation, which I love.
But dropping units seems mad to me! From the page:
For instance, “10 million kWh” becomes “↑13.6”
↑13.6 what!?
But then I'm a proponent that people should use WAY MORE units every day. Almost every number should have a unit after it. If I'm estimating how many people live on a street it should always be: "10 [houses] x 2.5 [people/house]" not "10 x 2.5".
- saulpw 2y agoOops! That was an error of manual conversion. The actual plugin converts it to "↑13.6 joules". Thanks for spotting, fixed it!