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July 31, 2013, 11:14:16 PM |
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Often in science units are replaced with a name. Think Kelvin, Celcius, Watt, Ampere, Pascal, Coulomb, Volt, etc.... Similarly, that has also happened with the 'satoshi' replacing the smallest current denomination of bitcoins.
As the term 'Terrahash per second' is a mouthful, what do people think about replacing that with a name or a simpler term?
If you were going to rename it, what would you call it? Would you use a person's name? Whose name would you use?
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DeathAndTaxes
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July 31, 2013, 11:15:35 PM Last edit: August 01, 2013, 05:02:59 AM by DeathAndTaxes |
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The base unit is hash/second
We don't use a special name for Kilowatts or Megawatts, it is just a prefix (i.e. Kilowatt = 1000 watts) and the base units watts.
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candoo
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July 31, 2013, 11:18:07 PM |
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What about terrahash? That might be a good name for thash. Aint it?
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August 01, 2013, 04:52:15 AM |
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When I read "TH/s" or "GH/s", I pronounce them in my head as "terrahash" or "gigahash", but I don't think we need to actually call them that. D&T is right: we don't need to adjust anything.
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panda1
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August 01, 2013, 04:55:04 AM |
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TH/s is simple enough.
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August 01, 2013, 05:52:16 AM |
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Often in science units are replaced with a name. Think Kelvin, Celcius, Watt, Ampere, Pascal, Coulomb, Volt, etc.... Similarly, that has also happened with the 'satoshi' replacing the smallest current denomination of bitcoins.
As the term 'Terrahash per second' is a mouthful, what do people think about replacing that with a name or a simpler term?
If you were going to rename it, what would you call it? Would you use a person's name? Whose name would you use?
retarded-ideas-per-second?
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[GPG Public Key]BTC/DVC/TRC/FRC: 1 K1773RbXRZVRQSSXe9N6N2MUFERvrdu6y ANC/XPM A K1773RTmRKtvbKBCrUu95UQg5iegrqyeA NMC: N K1773Rzv8b4ugmCgX789PbjewA9fL9Dy1 LTC: L Ki773RBuPepQH8E6Zb1ponoCvgbU7hHmd EMC: E K1773RxUes1HX1YAGMZ1xVYBBRUCqfDoF BQC: b K1773R1APJz4yTgRkmdKQhjhiMyQpJgfN
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August 01, 2013, 05:56:48 AM |
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Terahash, not terrahash. Terra = earth, Tera = SI prefix based on teras = monster.
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Herp-a-derp
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August 01, 2013, 11:17:17 PM |
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Derps per lunar cycle.
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August 01, 2013, 11:25:55 PM Last edit: August 01, 2013, 11:39:06 PM by Cyberdyne |
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The base unit is hash/second
We don't use a special name for Kilowatts or Megawatts, it is just a prefix (i.e. Kilowatt = 1000 watts) and the base units watts.
I think OP is more specifically referring to the "per second' part. A better example would be Hertz which means 'cycles per second'. When we talk about CPU's we don't go around saying "3 Gigacycles per second" we say 3 gigahertz. OP has asked a legitimate question, in my opinion. Actually come to think of it, simply using Hz is appropriate here. "My cards are hashing at 20 gigahertz" makes sense.
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August 02, 2013, 01:56:53 AM |
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If you were going to rename it, what would you call it? Would you use a person's name? Whose name would you use?
Fred
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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August 02, 2013, 02:16:32 AM |
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Hashrate. Defined as Hashes-per-second. Symbol 𝓗. T𝓗 = Terahashrate, etc.
(Also, I'm using 𝓓 for difficulty.)
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August 02, 2013, 07:05:07 AM |
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It's worth pointing out that the units for velocity and acceleration, two of the most important quantities in physics, don't have a special name. We just use meters per second and meters per second squared. Hashrate. Defined as Hashes-per-second. Symbol 𝓗. T𝓗 = Terahashrate, etc.
Hashrate is the quantity being measured. It's not an appropriate name for the unit. (Also, I'm using 𝓓 for difficulty.)
Using D or 𝓓 for the difficulty is fine. But difficulty has no units, it is defined as the ratio between the max target and the current target, and is thus a pure number.
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August 02, 2013, 07:07:27 AM |
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Often in science units are replaced with a name. Think Kelvin, Celcius, Watt, Ampere, Pascal, Coulomb, Volt, etc.... Similarly, that has also happened with the 'satoshi' replacing the smallest current denomination of bitcoins.
As the term 'Terrahash per second' is a mouthful, what do people think about replacing that with a name or a simpler term?
If you were going to rename it, what would you call it? Would you use a person's name? Whose name would you use?
By the time you herd enough cats to land on a common term we will have surpassed the need and have moved on to PH/s.
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August 02, 2013, 07:17:49 AM |
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I often want to say terahertz, and I think it's perfectly fine. Terahash is fine for slang. Something like tera-HiPS would be similar to teraFLOPS.
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August 02, 2013, 07:28:01 AM |
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TH/s is simple enough.
what he/she said
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August 02, 2013, 09:51:55 AM |
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Kish = KH/s Mish = MH/s Gish = GH/s Tish = TH/s I'm gishy.
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August 02, 2013, 11:01:21 AM |
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Terahash, not terrahash. Terra = earth, Tera = SI prefix based on teras = monster.
Hmmm, MonsterHash/s, not bad. I still like Fred though.
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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August 02, 2013, 11:05:34 AM |
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Kish = KH/s Mish = MH/s Gish = GH/s Tish = TH/s I'm gishy. In that case, the next steps would be Pish (Pèta) and Eish (Exa). Especially the last one would sound weird to me...
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jhansen858
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August 04, 2013, 09:02:58 PM |
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How about TH/s?
could be pronounced (thps)
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August 05, 2013, 02:03:00 AM |
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Hz is already taken, and I can't stand it when people use it to describe hashing performance. It measures clock speed, not hashing performance.
My 7970 runs at 1.2GHz, but only gets 0.7GH/s. I can't say it runs at 1.2GHz and hashes at 0.7GHz, that's just way too confusing!
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