• ndupont@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Having a second that is not in line with the definition of the second, which if the most metric thing, is an abomination.

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      3 months ago

      It’s close enough that counting Mississippis is still roughly accurate.

      (for non-US people, we sometimes estimate seconds by counting 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi… just because it’s a long word that takes about the right amount of time to say)