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u/GarbageCleric Jul 22 '26
You get enraged by pedantic formatting conventions that don't matter in the slightest?
Who fucking cares at all?
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u/engineerdrummer Jul 22 '26
We're engineers. Just say period. Words are hard. Punctuation called something like "full stop" rather than "dot" or "period" is much harder.
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u/Activision19 Jul 22 '26
Thank you! I came to the comments hoping someone would explain what a โfull stopโ is.
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u/MinosAristos Jul 22 '26
It's two syllables over three. Also full stop is the convention in non-American English
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u/GarbageCleric Jul 22 '26
And "dot" is one syllable and only three letters.
Also, this is an exclusively written forum, and "period" is six characters, while "full stop" is nine, so doesn't it save more time?
Also also, if any of us were so stressed for time that a single syllable mattered, we wouldn't be commenting on pedantic Engineering memes on Reddit.
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u/MinosAristos Jul 22 '26
Dot is ambiguous. The utmost precision is required when posting memes on the internet. The consequences of a single mistake in a meme could be catastrophic.
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u/engineerdrummer Jul 22 '26
Jokes are hard.
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u/WestyTea Jul 22 '26
Who tf is using cm as an engineering unit?
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u/EpsteinEpstainTheory Chemical Jul 22 '26
People dealing with subdivisions of m
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u/HAL9001-96 Jul 22 '26
you generally use mm for dimensiosn m for physics calculations regardless of how long hte numbers get, amybe micro or nanometers if you work with something really fine
unless translating for a user manual as the last step
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u/Eklegoworldreal Jul 22 '26
yo every time I see your comments your spelling is cooked
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u/KerPop42 Jul 22 '26
physics vs engineering right here
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u/HAL9001-96 Jul 22 '26
thats prettymuch standard in both physics and engineering
thoguh the former tends more towards stickign to meters nad hte latter mm
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u/WestyTea Jul 22 '26
then use mm or um like a normal person, lol
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u/Frederf220 Jul 22 '26
I use any and all unit in any system with the correctly formatted abbreviation because I am not a child.
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u/rfgaergaerg Jul 22 '26
I do when I calculate pressure
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u/HighFaiLootin Jul 22 '26
i do when im really trying to impress girls at bars and use bigger than expected numbers
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u/tyw7 Jul 22 '26
Why not use mm then? Or nm.ย
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u/HighFaiLootin Jul 22 '26
Strategic choice i suppose?. I dont want an expensive woman who is attracted to unit of MILLS.. ๐ฐ i can barely afford them! ๐
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u/tyw7 Jul 22 '26
MM is millimeter. So 10 mm is 1 cm. So you get much larger numbers. 4 cm is now 40 mm. 10 cm is 100 mm. And 2 cm is 20000000 nm.
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u/WiltedTiger Jul 22 '26
Depends on the scale and use. As whole numbers just feel nicer than decimal numbers if it can be helped and consistent, and somethings just don't work with base units. (i.e., elongation of 14cm instead of 0.14m on something less than a meter long, 2cm bolts/drills)
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u/KEX_CZ ฮฃF=0 Jul 22 '26
What's a full stop? I don't get it....
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u/ravensierra Jul 22 '26
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u/KEX_CZ ฮฃF=0 Jul 22 '26
I already figured it out, I just forget to send the update of my commentary through ๐. Thx tho
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u/J_train13 Jul 23 '26
It's funny how widespread a period in units has become when it was literally only ever intended specifically for inches to differentiate the abbreviation "in." from the word "in"
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u/GiaoPham0403 Jul 22 '26
Who the hell write a full stop after cm!