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		peterfield on March 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How “latency numbers everybody should know” decrea... 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)

deanmen on March 4, 2022 [–]

1024 ns = 1 micro second ;)

peterfield on March 7, 2022 | [–]

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

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