Just occurred to me how weird and arbitrary it is that we drop the multiplacation sign in algebra. (ab = a*b) Or I just remembered rather, it probably occurred to me when I first learned it. If anything it should he addition right?
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Replying to @maladrift
I think it's because we often multiply units, but adding them doesn't usually make sense like kWh for kilowatt * hours, so it's the more useful elision
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Replying to @djinnius
Seems plausible although coincidentally i personally find kWh annoying
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Replying to @maladrift
explicit is nice, yeah, doesn't bother me but I get it you must really hate that juxtaposition-multiply has higher precedence than symbol-multiply, i.e: 1/ms^2 is 1/(m*s^2) not 1 / m * s^2
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Replying to @djinnius @maladrift
this is inverse square milliseconds, right? the problem here is that ms, m, and s are all symbols
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Replying to @imhinesmi @maladrift
you caught my easter egg well played ;-) SI has ambiguities, i meant inverse meters-per-(second^2) and also meant that you'd have to *know that* to parse it... whether or not 1/(m*s^2) is even a useful measure of anything is left as an exercise!
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Replying to @djinnius @maladrift
inverse meters can be used to measure thickness (as in, square meters per liter), making inverse meters per second squared potentially useful for measuring the change in thickness of applied paint over time
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Replying to @imhinesmi @maladrift
I like it! if you were changing the rate of flow from a tap, you could measure the difference in how fast the water level is increasing in a basin with 1/ms^2
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i admit to having fun describing fuel efficiency in m^-2
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Replying to @imhinesmi @maladrift
yeah i think the actual metric here is like "rate of change in the change of the volume to surface area ratio of the basin" or summat
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