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submitted 5 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I think that's accurate, the exponent is what it's referring to, but the pedantic types are worried about what the p literally means.