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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At least a couple of these are uppercase and some are lowercase, but yeah.

It's a bit like a fun game: Ask someone in the military to hand you an "M1" and see what they come up with.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Celsius is also basically always accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that "℃" is a single Unicode character.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] kunegis@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that's only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.

[–] NightmareQueenJune@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I am flabbergasted.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't even have to be the military

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For M2, it could also be an M.2 - presumably an SSD, but depending on context could also be the slot itself!