Gregory's Serverfrequency can be used to measure things that really feel like they should use different units.
"how often should my OS check the state of the keyboard"
"middle C"
this is technically a coherent answer
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@lily Reminds me of that one toot saying that some color was some number of octaves above some musical note. (obviously by now I have forgotten all the specifics) @lily@glaceon.social it's not really though notes are only defined relative to each other and can technically mean anything  @lily I have been known to describe the rate at which a problem has been occurring as "audible" @lily I feel like this might be useful / funny in the same vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfdeWd0RMk  @lily Well I guess C would be happy to cast it, different named type but same underlying types. :D
@lily if it is a highly irregular phenomenon with a long-term average, you could use the Becquerel. Props to https://two-wrongs.com/si-units-for-request-rate.html for informing me of this minor crime.  @lily i... I want to contend that 'middle C' is usually thought of as a _note_ / _tone_, which _has_ a frequency, but is itself better defined as the sound that results from a pressure wave _of that frequency_, and not just the frequency itself as an abstract unit? If I play a middle C on a piano, the middle C isn't some frequency, it's what I _experience_ in response to a wave that _has_ a frequency as a property? @lily this reminds me of my proposal to store coordinates in integer multiples of "red", defined for this purpose as 625nm .. https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01392844659  @lily "The note C5 is 40 octaves below light green"   |
"how fast are we actuating this motor"
"middle C"
is actually where floppy disk music comes from