Unit of Measurement WTF
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@kazitor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Can someone turn this thing off?
I tried to, but tapping or swiping the toggle switch didn’t work. Does it have
disabled
set? Probably, I notice now it’s greyed out compared to the other two.
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@danixdefcon5 Huh. TIL.
(for reference)
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@boomzilla Since manatees live in Florida, that could be a Florida man story, too
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That number is suspiciously close to the number of metres in a light year. But if it really is measured in manatees, then it's about a parsec.
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@dkf And I thought of the number of atoms per avocado. Those moles everywhere.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Those moles everywhere.
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@HardwareGeek And now gimme the size in mole hills.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@HardwareGeek And now gimme the size in mole hills.
6.9 mountains
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Answers on the interwebs are kind of all over the place on this one.
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@boomzilla Bonus points for using a Polish web site.
Would the result change when you go for Shopping (zakupy) instead of all (wszystko)?
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@boomzilla said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Answers on the interwebs are kind of all over the place on this one.
That's almost five hippos if it helps.
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@DogsB African or European?
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@JBert American
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@boomzilla said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Answers on the interwebs are kind of all over the place on this one.
And a quick browse failed to determine Howard's horsepower.
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@loopback0 there are a few edge cases, e.g. under temperature is “are you over 60” -> yes -> degrees Fahrenheit.
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@loopback0 is somewhere between whatever-the-heck stone is and the difference between "tonnes" and "tons".
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@topspin I'd say imperial vs metric, but I think there's two kinds of imperial tons?
A metric ton is 1000kg. Also (at least in NL) a pound is 500g and an ounce is 100g.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@topspin I'd say imperial vs metric, but I think there's two kinds of imperial tons?
A metric ton is 1000kg. Also (at least in NL) a pound is 500g and an ounce is 100g.
Where and how do you measure a shitton?
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@DogsB That sounds like a freedom unit. We don't use those in the West-European socialist paradise.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
I'd say imperial vs metric, but I think there's two kinds of imperial tons?
Tonne is metric, ton is an imperial (long) ton.
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@DogsB said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@topspin I'd say imperial vs metric, but I think there's two kinds of imperial tons?
A metric ton is 1000kg. Also (at least in NL) a pound is 500g and an ounce is 100g.
Where and how do you measure a shitton?
How many shittons make a fuckton?
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@loopback0 Pick two prime numbers and divide the larger one by the smaller.
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@topspin said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@loopback0 is somewhere between whatever-the-heck stone is and the difference between "tonnes" and "tons".
A stone is 14 (imperial/freedom) pounds.
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@topspin said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@loopback0 is somewhere between whatever-the-heck stone is and the difference between "tonnes" and "tons".
A stone is 14 (imperial/freedom) pounds.
Which is stupid enough as is, but then you add on top that nobody knows how much an imperial pound is.
Google says a stone is 6.35029kg.
(Although I don't trust them anymore since their unit converter has been hella buggy in the past.)@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
a pound is 500g
FTW.
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@topspin said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
how much an imperial pound is.
2.2 lb = 1 kg is the rough conversion I learned. Google is probably more pedantically accurate.
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@topspin said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@topspin said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@loopback0 is somewhere between whatever-the-heck stone is and the difference between "tonnes" and "tons".
A stone is 14 (imperial/freedom) pounds.
Which is stupid enough as is, but then you add on top that nobody knows how much an imperial pound is.
Google says a stone is 6.35029kg.
(Although I don't trust them anymore since their unit converter has been hella buggy in the past.)@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
a pound is 500g
FTW.
Google's correct this time. An imperial pound is ~454g, 14 of them is ~6.35kg.
An imperial hundredweight is 112lb.
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@loopback0 said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@DogsB said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@topspin I'd say imperial vs metric, but I think there's two kinds of imperial tons?
A metric ton is 1000kg. Also (at least in NL) a pound is 500g and an ounce is 100g.
Where and how do you measure a shitton?
How many shittons make a fuckton?
The shit ton is the metric one.
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
an ounce is 100g
Now you're just messing with the human-centered term "ounce". We all know that we drink beer by the pint, wine by the cup, and hard liquor by the ounce. Your once is so far off from what anyone would expect that it's deceptive.
Imperial units are crap when you're trying to be precise, but they're not bad when you are in a casual context. Also, I know that you were mentioning units of weight, and I switch to units of volume - but in the wonderful imperial system, they often share names and are sometime the same value (as long as what you are measuring is water).
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@Bulb said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
note that base 12 counting can be done on fingers—by pointing with one hand to the links between knuckles on the other (there is 12 of them excluding thumb).
Why involve the other hand at all? Just use the thumb of the same hand to point to your other fingers
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@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
there's two kinds of imperial tons?
Short ton is 2000 lb, long ton is 2240 lb.
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@HardwareGeek I am not sorry.
There was once a king who was only 12 inches tall. Terrible king, but a great ruler.
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@lolwhat Because a hundredweight isn't a hundred pounds, as it would be if the world made any kind of sense, but 112.
Similarly, the Hundred Years' War lasted 106 years, and everything for sale at Dollar Tree costs $1.25. (Maybe they should change the name to Long Dollar Tree.)
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@loopback0 said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
As one of my math professors used to delight in saying, "a pint's a pound the world around".
And that's the one who was always stumping for the metric system.
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@Jaime said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@PleegWat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
an ounce is 100g
Now you're just messing with the human-centered term "ounce". We all know that we drink beer by the pint, wine by the cup, and hard liquor by the ounce. Your once is so far off from what anyone would expect that it's deceptive.
Must be the Russian ounce. 100g is a reasonable basic unit for amounts of vodka.
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@Jaime said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Your once is so far off from what anyone would expect that it's deceptive.
It’s the result of the conversion process in the 19th century, when the idea was to let people use the unit names they were used to, but redefine them as convenient Metric values. Before 1816, the Netherlands was in the same boat as almost every other country, with a huge variety of different measures being used all over the place; the Metric system was introduced in that year, and in 1820, to ease the transition, old names were stuck on new units.
Thus, the “Netherlands mile” was proclaimed equal to 1,000 metres, the “Netherlands el” to be 1 metre, the “Netherlands pound” to 1 kilogramme (but in daily use, people say “pond” to 500 g), the “Netherlands ounce” to 100 grammes, etc. In short, they took an old, common unit name and used it for the closest Metric system prefix+unit combination.
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@da-Doctah said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
As one of my math professors used to delight in saying, "a pint's a pound the world around".
I believe that's true of an Imperial pint (of water) (Edit: no, it's not, unless there's an Imperial pound that's equal to 20 ounces.) , not a US pint (either liquid or dry measure). (Edit: A US pint is actually closer, at about 1.04 pounds.)
Yes, the US has two pints, and they're different, not only from the Imperial measure, but from each other, too. The Imperial pint is 568.26125 ml, the US liquid pint is 473.176473 ml, and the US dry pint (the only thing I'm aware of that it's commonly used for is small fruit, like berries) is 550.6104713575 (1/32 of a bushel, which is commonly used for other dry commodities, like grain and large fruit).
But wait, it gets even better! Pint, or the equivalent in the local language, is used in other countries, too. In most former British colonies, if you order a pint of beer, you'll get an Imperial pint, or close to it. In Australia, it will be rounded up to 570 ml — except in South Australia, where you'll get 425 ml. In Canada, if you order a pint of beer, you'll get an Imperial pint, but if you order une pinte de bière, you'll get an Imperial quart. Anywhere else, ; you may get anything from less than half a liter to 2 liters, depending on local custom.
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@da-Doctah said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
everything for sale at Dollar Tree costs $1.25
I got a greeting card there for $1 yesterday. I guess some things are still a short dollar, woo. (Fuckin' greeting cards are $6+ elsewhere, can you believe that shit...)
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@lolwhat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@da-Doctah said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
everything for sale at Dollar Tree costs $1.25
I got a greeting card there for $1 yesterday. I guess some things are still a short dollar, woo. (Fuckin' greeting cards are $6+ elsewhere, can you believe that shit...)
Thanks, Inflation!
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@HardwareGeek Not to mention that the density is depending on the liquid / mixtures of liquids and their temperature inside the container.
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@lolwhat said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@da-Doctah said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
everything for sale at Dollar Tree costs $1.25
I got a greeting card there for $1 yesterday. I guess some things are still a short dollar, woo. (Fuckin' greeting cards are $6+ elsewhere, can you believe that shit...)
Are they made of timber for that price?
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@Rhywden said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
@HardwareGeek Not to mention that the density is depending on the liquid / mixtures of liquids and their temperature inside the container.
Yes, water at the totally standard temperature of 62°F (16.67°C).
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@HardwareGeek said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
In most former British colonies, if you order a pint of beer, you'll get an Imperial pint, or close to it.
I am reliably informed that in New Zealand, asking for a pint in a pub will get you a 500ml beverage.
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@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
reliably informed ... New Zealand
Ah, well; New Zealand. I don't consider anything about Kiwis reliable.