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		stavros 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 ... What irks me is that they could have abbreviated "7mths of a second" to just "7us" while ADDING clarity!

jjk166 4 months ago [–]

7ms is 7 milliseconds. Unfortunately 7μs is difficult to type and there isn't a good universal way to abbreviate it in ascii.

stavros 4 months ago | [–]

Eh, 7us is fine.

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