Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff
Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff
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At least a couple of these are uppercase and some are lowercase, but yeah.
It's a bit like a fun game: Ask someone in the military to hand you an "M1" and see what they come up with.
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Celsius is also basically always accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that "℃" is a single Unicode character.
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Wat
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I think that's only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.
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One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.
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I am flabbergasted.
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Doesn't even have to be the military
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For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!
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