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Oh no it’s not

Just before Christmas Richard Rose suggested that ‘a nanosecond is about the time it takes to realise that you didn’t mean to irretrievably delete all that data’. But someone got there first.
‘The period of time it takes to realise that you did not mean to delete all that data has already been defined – it’s known as an onosecond,’ says David Cochrane at Ingineur.

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