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by mapt 317 days ago
"Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons...

Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.
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bombela 317 days ago
Anything to avoid using the proper units, you wouldn't want the Americans audience to be enlightened wouldn't you.
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stavros 317 days ago
What irks me is that they could have abbreviated "7mths of a second" to just "7us" while ADDING clarity!
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jjk166 317 days ago
7ms is 7 milliseconds. Unfortunately 7μs is difficult to type and there isn't a good universal way to abbreviate it in ascii.
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stavros 317 days ago
Eh, 7us is fine.
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