2026-11-03 20:40 UTC
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@Siegfried@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 03:26
Americans choose to meassure thier dicks with the thumb of a british king instead of using meters… or GIGAmeters… there are no right awnsers, right?
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@Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 03:43
I kinda want a hexadecimal version of the metric system.
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@deHaga@feddit.uk 2026-11-03 22:15
1 acre UK 4,046.85642 m² US 4,046.87261 m²
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@Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-04 03:48
Frankly you shouldn’t even be using prefixes anyway. SI units are kg, m, and s and if you need to refer to large or small units, you just use scientific notation. e.g. 5.6 × 10²¹m
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@over_clox@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 20:49
Sir, this is a Wendy’s, we measure in common units around here… 🍌 bananaforscale.info 🍌
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@saltesc@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 21:56
It’s easier to use their names Deci = 1/10th Centi = 100th Milli = 1000th Micro = 1,000,000th Nano = 1,000,000,000th Deca = ×10 Hector = ×100 Kilo = ×1,000 Mega - ×1,000,000 Giga = × 1,000,000,000 Tera = × 1,000,000,000,000,000 Etc prefixing the thing being measured. So you know what a centimetre, gigabyte, megaton, kiljoule, etc. are. Other easy conversions too, like 1kg = 1L of water. And it’s metre. Because a meter is a measuring device and all this shit is Latin (metrum) like proper science stuff be. Americans don’t even use it, so they can fuck off with their misspelling. And that’s it. You now know the metric system. You probably now realise you’ve been using it all along for many things.
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@davidagain@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 04:17
It’s obvious that there’s 1760 yards in a mile. There’s 22 yards in a chain, which we can all remember because of the 22 yard line in rugby. There are 10 chains in a furlong, which fans of metric can’t complain about. There are 8 furlongs in a mile, just like there are 8 pints in a gallon. And 22x10x8 = 11x10x16 and 11 is easy to multiply by in your head, so it’s really very simple to get to 1760. /s
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@TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 00:06
Boooorrrrrriiiiiiing Do we need to post the same shit all the time on a biweekly cycle? Surely there is something actually interesting to post/talk about.
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@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-11-04 02:04
1,000 kilometres = 1 megametre
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@huquad@lemmy.ml 2026-11-04 01:47
Wait till you hear about the energy efficiency ratio