this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
272 points (97.9% liked)

xkcd

9086 readers
167 users here now

A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
koraro@lemmy.world
272
xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units (xkcd.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by prototype_g2@lemmy.ml to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
74 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fun trivia. It's called a second because it's the second division of an hour after minutes. You can keep going with thirds and fourths for sub second time.