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by peterfield 1575 days ago
Complete laggard questions: * Did SSD exist in 1993? * Why using an "approximately equal" sign (as opposed to a real = sign) between e.g. 1000ns and 1 micros ? (I would undersatnd between binary and decimal multiples of bytes...but decimal fractions of seconds don't work this way)
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1024 ns = 1 micro second ;)
To my knowledge the second is still a metric system unit, not a "SW engineering geek system unit". Wikipedia agrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanosecond