alt Hacker News"5000 Erlangs" - oh, they meant 5000 instances of some Erlang interpreter. Not Erlang as a unit of measure.[1] One voice call for one hour is one Erlang.
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lawik • yesterday at 12:04 PM
I was aware an Erlang being a unit though I'd forgotten what it measured. I Need to have my fun when giving titles to these things. Hope it fell within bearable tolerances.
robocat • last Sunday at 10:35 PM
What does 5000 Animats measure?
Does 1 Animat convert to metric nitpicks?
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bravesoul2 • last Sunday at 9:42 PM
Thanks for the rabbit hole!
Neat! I always thought the name of the Erlang programming language just meant “Ericsson Language”, since this programming language was invented for Ericsson. Never knew there was anything more than that to the name!