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What exactly is the point of these unit conversions Wolfram Alpha gave me?

@Rosemary i think that generally they’re supposed to be to give you a sense of scale, rather than being just numbers (i’ll often get like “that many meters per second is about 0.25c!” on something) but i agree that in this case it missed the mark

@monorail Oh, I know why it does it. I just think it's ridiculous that it decided that it was useful to convert microseconds to kilograms per meter second megapascal.

@Trinket What I don't get is why it would use megohm microfarads instead of just ohm-farads. I suppose it really likes the mega prefix.

@Rosemary @Trinket Don't be silly, capacitance doesn't come in units bigger than milliFarads.

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