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In my experience "TP" is indeed a popular abbreviation. I've seen it not
only in white papers, but in blue, green, pink, and gray at least, not
to mention in various patterns--even scented.
(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
If feasible, I'd concur with those urging standard abbreviations for
data rates or, since this is after all presumably the company creating
the application involved, perhaps even expanding the field a bit to
accommodate the longest necessary term. That should be simple enough for
the programmers without resorting to an awkward and potentially
confusing term.
David
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> From:
> Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
> Date:
> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:05:05 -0800
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> I've seen "TP" commonly used in medical data processing and optics,
> but mostly in white papers and other publications and not on actual
> instrument displays. I think the safest thing would be numbers and
> units, although that might not be a good approach if you have multiple
> transfer rates to display and need to distinguish between them.
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> Gene Kim-Eng
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