We often (jokingly) measure time in kiloseconds around my office. As rue points out, that's just a bit over fifteen minutes, so its actually a useful unit.
"See you in the conference room in 2 ksecs..."
Put a bunch of geeks together too long and this is what happens.
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We often (jokingly) measure time in kiloseconds around my office. As rue points out, that's just a bit over fifteen minutes, so its actually a useful unit.
"See you in the conference room in 2 ksecs..."
Put a bunch of geeks together too long and this is what happens.
decimal time (using SI prefixes to the regular second) is regularly used in (physical) engineering disciplines.
Real geeks use milli-fortnight
Indeed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=fortnight+/+1000
1 fortnight / 1000 = 20.16 minutes