The Lovelace (Ll): a unit of suckiness
One Lovelace is the amount of force (measured in dynes) it takes to draw a round ball weighing e Troy Ounces down a tube it fits exactly (in air) at a speed of pi attoparsecs/microfortnight.
Like Farads, this is a rather large measurement. Thus, Plan 9 sucks a few mLl, for instance, while your average Microsoft product achieves many Ll.
I’ve been asked not to cite the Usenet newsgroup this came from, so I won’t ;-)
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