Replace 'TH/s' with a name? or simpler term?

[wolverine.ks]

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]

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.

[candoo]

What about terrahash? That might  be a good name for thash. Aint it?

[crazyates]

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.

[panda1]

TH/s is simple enough.

[K1773R]

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?

[Meni Rosenfeld]

Terahash, not terrahash. Terra = earth, Tera = SI prefix based on teras = monster.

[Herp-a-derp]

Derps per lunar cycle.

[Cyberdyne]

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.

[os2sam]

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

[Jaymax]

Hashrate.  Defined as Hashes-per-second.  Symbol 𝓗.  T𝓗 = Terahashrate, etc.

(Also, I'm using 𝓓 for difficulty.)

[Meni Rosenfeld]

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.

[dhenson]

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.

[cp1]

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.

[stergium]

TH/s is simple enough.

what he/she said 

[ElitePork]

Kish = KH/s
Mish = MH/s
Gish = GH/s
Tish = TH/s

I'm gishy. 

[os2sam]

Terahash, not terrahash. Terra = earth, Tera = SI prefix based on teras = monster.

Hmmm, MonsterHash/s, not bad.  I still like Fred though.

[PEBKAC]

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...

[jhansen858]

How about TH/s?

could be pronounced (thps)

[crazyates]

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!