diff --git a/usingcurl/transfers/request-rate.md b/usingcurl/transfers/request-rate.md
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--- a/usingcurl/transfers/request-rate.md
+++ b/usingcurl/transfers/request-rate.md
@@ -42,3 +42,16 @@ Make curl download 10 images but doing it no faster than 3 transfers per hour:
 Make curl download 200 images but not faster than 14 transfers per minute:
 
     curl --rate 14/m -O https://example.com/[1-200].jpg
+
+## Number of units
+
+Starting in curl 8.10.0 this option accepts an optional *number of units*. The
+request rate is then provided as **N/ZU** where **N** is an integer number,
+**Z** is an integer number of time units and **U** is a time unit.
+
+The number and the units are the same as mentioned above, but now you can also
+specify a number of time units.
+
+For example, make no more than eight transfers every five seconds:
+
+    curl --rate 8/5s -O https://example.com/[1-100].jpg