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		pnako on Nov 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Htop Explained Why is everything in scientific notation? This is about as sensible as the concept of picodollars.

1996 on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

The mantissa change more on a day to day basis than the exponent, allowing more information density for the relevant parts

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