var is not an official SI unit. VA could also be used for the real and reactive power components. Obviously, for DC circuits, Watts (W) are more appropriate. I can't ever remember using the unit VA as a Physics student, but then we dealt almost exclusively with DC instrumentation. AC is best left to the electrical engineers.
They are part of the "Side Notes", so it's still mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_SI_units#Other_units_defined_but_not_officially_sanctioned Unlike all the other units below that are omitted.
In other words, what "var" means if you happen to stumble across it. To me, VAR primarily means "video assistant referee".
To me, it means "Variable", because I'm a software programmer. But in the context of AC Electricity, it means something else =D
I was just pointing out the potential for acronym soup. In addition, some combinations of letters are going to be rude words in one language or other. As for programming, these days I mostly use Python, but only to help friends out with various projects. Quite soon, I expect I'll be using Devin or similar AI to create and maintain code. Looking forward to that, I think.
Not much I can do about that, I don't know enough foreign languages to account for that. Meh, I prefer doing it myself. I have a high mistrust of AI, for obvious reasons.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/m...ilica-glass-media-as-a-cloud-storage-solution Hope this one will actually make it into production, 7Tb on a plate of glass as read only memory, would be awesonemous for long term storage, I however don't think it will become a thing for your home PC..
7TB rather than 7Tb. Being read-only, it's an archival mechanism. A mass market storage reader might be very cheap though. Perhaps you'd contract out writing the data to companies that can afford the expensive writer technology. I'm sure they'll find a way to increase the capacity.
@Asbo Zaprudder I've updated it again: Spoiler: Updated Proposed Metric Prefixes along with IEC Binary Prefixes What do you think of the revisions? I double checked them against the existing SI Abbreviations.
Fine, I guess, although I have no skin in this game other than to be a random commentator. The short form of Xenbi, Xi, is also a Greek letter name and a Chinese family name, of course, but context would disambiguate.
Both are true, but that's not what I'm worried about when colliding abbreviations with. It's more specifically SI Abbreviations which are a very finite set =D.
Why worry about something that one doesn't control? There are committees that decide the rules. The prefix for tera (T) already clashes with that for tesla, so I guess it was thought there was no chance of ambiguity arising in that case. There are infinitely many conceptual powers of 10 and we probably should only care about naming those that presumably have any use. Mathematicians like inventing names for ridiculously large numbers. It seems akin to stamp collecting - a somewhat pointless obsession, yet totally harmless.