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That’s interesting. Obviously, you’d put a center dot to disambiguate millihertz from meter-hertz, but I can’t recall ever having learned a rule about that. So some combinations of units are inherently ambiguous?
Also: Hz/dpt.
I can't tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?
EDIT: Also, TIL about dpt. Thanks!
Something that occurs once a hour has a frequency of 277.777... μHz
You know, I always figured optometry involved like, super complicated math and shit.
Turns out it's just basic arithmetic.
Kinda like programming, in a way.
Yeah, from my experience ordering glasses, it's mostly about making sure the lenses are aligned with my retinas to focus the light in the right spots. All the numbers are just a way to formalize those measurements so that the lens maker gets it right
My last optometrist refused to tell me what my prescription was. I should have insisted, they've since closed up shop.
Speed as meter per hertz is a rather odd case, like with a machine that goes in discrete steps.
In any case, I never use implied multiplication (and others) and always simply put everything where it should be.
Speed is metre hertz rather than metre per hertz. Metres per hertz would measure absement, which is a measure of how far away something is from a start point and for how long. So being twice as far away for half the time would be the same amount of absement.
Yes, sorry for the little error, my point is that m*Hz it is not generally speed but only in specific cases. Hz is not just "per time" but "something occurring x times per time", like a frequency or revolutions. You can not use it for regular speed, it has to be a periodic event. That is how it is defined:
This is why we have Becquerels to count decay events, which are random and not periodic, but the unit is also 1/s. And for the same reason you can not use m*Bq as speed.
I never knew that Hertz requires a periodic event. Thanks for that and the Becquerel explanation!
Tell me you don’t [Edit: need] glasses without telling me you don’t need glasses :D
I actually do have glasses, I just never bothered learning about any of the technical details behind my lenses. Optometrist measured my eyes, I chose the cheapest frame the store offered, came back a week later to pick up the glasses and that's about it.