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> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm". For the uninitiated, what's confusing about this? It seems to commun
by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm".
For the uninitiated, what's confusing about this? It seems to communicate the intended meaning accurately. Is there some ambiguity here I missed?
- elliottkember 2y agoI think it's that a thousand terawatts is equivalent to one petawat. So this is 10.7PWh.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoAh so the complaint is of moving the last order of magnitude onto the quantity rather than the unit. I can't imagine this affects readability that much (although I can understand why you'd want to enforce consistency in an academic context). Sometimes it's useful to distinguish these, though. And after many do have the inexplicable "MM" suffix (ie s thousand-thousand) to suffer through which seems much worse.