• jayk
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    1 day ago

    why would you divide something by 10^-3 instead of just multiplying it by 1000

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      Perhaps the value was from elsewhere in the conversation and could have just as well been a variable in the formula, so they were referencing where it came from by spelling it out.