Yes. I heard about the term nanocentury at Lucasfilm from Tom Porter and Rodney Stock. One nanocentury is (said to be) how long a user is willing to wait for a response to an input action -- apparently the term originated at IBM in the 1960s. It's hard to believe that I'm the first to notice that pi seconds is roughly the same thing -- certainly within the usual precision of HCI measurements -- but that's what everyone thinks now. On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:15 AM Georg Dr. Fischer < dr.georg.fischer@gmail.com> wrote:
It may be an old joke for you, but I did not know that pi seconds are almost a nanocentury. - cf. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement>. _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun