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by voidUpdate 4 hours ago
One of my pet peeves is people using the letter "u" to mean micro. Its a greek letter mu, "μ", and seeing as the entire thing is capitalised here, it could also be "Μ" (uppercase greek mu, not uppercase latin M)
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The problem is that µ is usually hard to type (unless you have a Greek keyboard or a custom keyboard mapping). This said, although I tolerate stuff like "47 uF" in electronic schematics (also because legacy software didn't even allow the µ symbol), I definitely find horrible to see stuff like "us" instead of "µs" in an article.
I just googled it to type my comment. And if you're using it enough to need quick access, you can do alt + 0181 on your numpad on a windows system
And it's option-m on a Mac.
... that's weird. It's alt gr+ m on every recent finnish keyboard, apparently it's not on us ones?