> I'd have voted for burflydick or mumbledypeg or doohickey Or “radian”. Oh, wai... | Hacker News

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		dragonwriter on July 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uno – the “unit” for dimensionless quantities > I'd have voted for burflydick or mumbledypeg or doohickey Or “radian”. Oh, wait...

SV_BubbleTime on July 2, 2021 | [–]

Nothing wrong with radian… except that I keep having to explain to people it’s not metric.

“It’s one Honda Civic across, at 1000 Honda Civics away”

ggm on July 2, 2021 | [–]

"decibels"

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