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A few inches is still a couple of centimeters.
#MetricVsImperial #MeasurementMatters #InchesToCentimeters #LengthConversion #MathIsFun #ScienceFacts #UnitsOfMeasurement #ConvertIt #MetricSystem #ImperialSystem
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I wish altbot had a sibling, unitbot maybe?
So when a barbarian informs that: "I caught a fish 3.5 lengths-of-a-bodypart long!11", then civilized people could ask the bot to please translate. 🙂
Many posts here start good, but then gets weird with units (and I'm sure it works both ways). The post is not quite interesting enough to start actively wondering how to perform the conversion by myself, and so the mild interest turns into mild frustration.
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My form of #protest against the #trump #regime is to adopt the #metricsystem. Screw him and his convoluted ass #imperialsystem. (sips from my 355 ml can of Spindrift) ✊
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The metre originated in the French Revolution
#HackerNews #metre #FrenchRevolution #metricSystem #measurement #history
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A question to people who grew up with the #ImperialSystem, and don't use the #MetricSystem very often:
When hear a person is 1.90m tall, I mentally process that in one go.
How do you folks mentally handle the equivalent "6 feet 3 inches" in your brains?
Does it "automagically" get mapped into a single height figure, without you even noticing it's values on two different scales, added up? Or do you mentally stack the inches on top of the feet?
Assuming you were 5 feet 2 inches tall, and could not see the 6 feet 3 inches person: how does your brain "compute" and "visualize" the difference?
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Dear Europe. We love standards, like to make jokes about the imperial system and, well everything else that is used in the US.
But there is one thing that sucks. shoe and clothing sizes. Just what the fuck is this? How can I have a "44" with this brand of shoe and "40" with another one? Could you please fix this, oh my lovely europe?
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When my son was much smaller, he'd measure things in "feet", but one foot was the thickness of his tiny feet!
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So a gigabyte is unfortunately a terrible way of measuring bytes because giga* is base10 (1000 bytes/decimal) and bytes are base2(binary) , so the standard was changed to gibibytes because it would be base2 (1024 bytes) but we got so used to the word "gigabyte" (probably because of the metric system) that we still use it to mean base2 despite it technically meaning base10.
Because of that, storage makers advertise their products as gigabytes because it makes it seem bigger than it actually holds (in gibibytes) and it is legally true.
How can society switch to using the word gibibytes so computing data is less confusing and more readable. It probably starts with retraining ourselves to use gibibytes even if it feels weird.
What are your thoughts?
#Computing #Data #MetricSystem #Binary #Tech #Technology #Standardisation #Gigabytes #Gigabyte #Gibibytes #Gibibyte
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1l of (4°C) water weighs 1kg.
1kg (of anything) is 1000g.
1g of water is 1cm³.
Stack 1000 1cm³ blocks to get a 10m high column.
This column exerts 100kPa of pressure on its base.
To heat it by 1°C requires 1kcal.
And 1N would accelerate it by 1m/s every second.I had to google how many inches are in 7 feet.
And I think that's stupid.Edit: Dear Americans; I require 7 feet in fathoms.
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@MeanwhileinCanada
The only thing worse than the #ImperialSystem is an Imperial / #MetricSystem hybrid (just as confusing, and even less internally consistent).I love #Canadians. You're truly some of the kindest folks out there. But this nonsense is a crime against humanity.
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Beaverton: 5 subtle ways to let people know you’re not American while travelling abroad https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/07/5-subtle-ways-to-let-people-know-youre-not-american-while-travelling-abroad/ #satire #canada #commentary #tragicallyhip #FeaturedPost #metricsystem #DavidSuzuki #DonCherry #MuchMusic #Beavfeed #American #Canadian #travel #list
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@Jdreben #BlueSky is to #ActivityPub like #MSFTOOXML is to #OpenDocumentFormat. It's too late and it's unnecessary. Due to the underlying profit motive, it's also probably cumbersome. In other words, it's like a massive, self-interested world power introducing #ImperialUnits for measurement in a world where the #MetricSystem is already well entrenched with a claim that "diversity in standards" is useful.
Which, of course, is one of the reasons the rest of us can't have nice things.
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Perhaps a way to get holdouts to accept the metric system would be to transitionally allow them to say unnecessarily complicated things like “12⅝ centimeters.”
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#measurement #standards #MetricSystem #numbers #mathemathics #quecto #ronna #ronto #quetta
Quecto, Ronna: Meet the Newest Metric Prefixes (Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/new-metric-prefixes-quecto-ronto-ronna-quetta-1849808845
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CW: The Unexpected Measure that Makes the Modern World Tick - Be Smart (PBS)
From the description:
"All of modern society relies upon a seemingly simple but surprisingly complex unit of measurement..."
I thought this was a fascinating video from PBS about a measurement that rules our lives.
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Let me introduce you to the new giants Ronna and Quetta and their indefinitesmal siblings Ronto and Quecto.
These are official new prefixes to the SI metric system.
Quetta: 10³⁰
Ronna: 10²⁷
Ronto: 10⁻²⁷
Quecto: 10⁻³⁰For perspective: the earth has a mass of around 6 ronnagramm (6Rg).
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Heard on my flight in the US today … as mom with her 9 year old daughter boards, kid points to the information on the door of the plane … “Mom! Did you see that. It’s the Metric System! They measure distance in kilometers!” Not sure to be entirely geeking out about a 9-year old noticing units , laughing or crying at the state of reluctance to embrace the rest of the world #MetricSystem #ImperialUnits
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America Has Two Feet. It’s About to Lose One of Them - For decades, U.S. metrologists have juggled two conflicting measurements for the foot. Henceforth,... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/science/foot-surveying-metrology-dennis.html #nationalinstituteofstandardsandtechnology #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #nationalgeodeticsurvey #weightsandmeasures #blackwelljulianap #your-feed-science #dennismichaell. #metricsystem #research
