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Please don't.

The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:

> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic processes in activity referred to a radionuclide

Neither is usually the case for requests.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-en-pdf

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There’s an even stronger reason not to given in the same document:

"The special names becquerel, gray and sievert were specifically introduced because of the dangers to human health that might arise from mistakes involving the units reciprocal second… "

Clearly, we should place a radioactive source, a Geiger counter, and a computer in a sealed box. Every time the counter registers a decay, the computer performs a HTTP GET. Thus, we end up with Schrödinger's webserver...

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