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Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Fun trivia. It's called a second because it's the second division of an hour after minutes. You can keep going with thirds and fourths for sub second time.

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