AROUND the world, Disney’s Mickey Mouse is arguably the most famous rodent – and it would seem logical that people would use his name wherever they felt it suitable.
It has been said that a “mickey” is a unit of measurement, one used to describe the smallest detectable movement of a mouse cursor.
Is this true?
VERDICT:
TRUE
This is indeed true, and it has been explained by organisations like the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers through a post on their official Facebook account.
“Mickeys per second is a unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of a computer mouse. The directional movements are called the horizontal mickey count and the vertical mickey count,” it said.
Similarly, the computing aid website Computer Hope explains this and adds that mickey is a unit of measure for the smallest possible movement of a computer mouse.
“The speed is determined by how many millimeters you move the mouse with how many pixels the pointer moves on the screen,” it said.
“There are varying measurements depending on the equipment used, but generally a mickey is considered either 1/200 of an inch or 0.1 millimeters,” added Computer Hope.
References:
https://www.computerhope.com/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/
https://www.facebook.com/
