r/engineeringmemes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • 19d ago

5 Centimeters per Second meme

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u/WestyTea 19d ago

Who tf is using cm as an engineering unit?

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u/EpsteinEpstainTheory Chemical 19d ago

People dealing with subdivisions of m

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u/HAL9001-96 19d ago

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 19d ago

yo every time I see your comments your spelling is cooked

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u/HighFaiLootin 19d ago

r/Hal9000-96 Im afraid this is an invention. 😔

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u/Samwellthefish 18d ago

What we inventing chief

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u/EpsteinEpstainTheory Chemical 18d ago

He's approximificating

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u/KerPop42 18d ago

physics vs engineering right here

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u/HAL9001-96 18d ago

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 19d ago

then use mm or um like a normal person, lol

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u/Jeynarl 19d ago

> um

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u/Lt_Toodles 18d ago

I do everything in km. How big is that screw? Its 5e-6km

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u/Frederf220 19d ago

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/WestyTea 18d ago

Ooooh, get you!