Comment by jaggederest
1 day ago
Dimensional analysis is a superpower honestly. Even in a software engineering career it's saved me from massive issues quite routinely
1 day ago
Dimensional analysis is a superpower honestly. Even in a software engineering career it's saved me from massive issues quite routinely
The HP 48G / 50G provides incredible unit handling. My main use for it these days.
Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3038/
Also: https://xkcd.com/687/
Any war stories?
Requests per second, bytes per request, bytes per second should all match up very closely under dimensional analysis or something is drastically wrong ;)
Little's law is another related phenomenon that is super critical. Measuring things when the units don't match has bitten me more than once.
Concur on Little's law