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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7か月前

Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7か月前
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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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