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		djtango on Sept 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Common mistakes when using the metric system I've always thought u for mu was a neat hack - its inconvenient to type mu and u is ascii compliant. It usually doesn't take toooo long to figure out what u means from the context

yuye on Sept 12, 2024 [–]

I agree with u being a neat hack, don't agree with µ being hard to type.

On US-international keyboards, it's AltGr+m

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