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>Also a "football field" isn't constant between football codes (Canadian, Association, Gaelic, Australian, American, etc.) nor even between different grounds in
by froindt 8y ago
>Also a "football field" isn't constant between football codes (Canadian, Association, Gaelic, Australian, American, etc.) nor even between different grounds in some cases. Not a great unit.
I was going full American here with American football fields (standard 300x160 feet) forgetting about the ambiguity saying "football".
I understand your frustration, but having an idea of what 7,000,000 of anything would look like is non-trivial. If it were 7,000,000 cubic meters you might re-express things to be easier to visualize.
Unfortunately for the time being, the US is using gallons, so I'm stuck making these comparisons to grasp at what that volume looks like.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> I was going full American here with American football fields (standard 300x160 feet) American football fields are 360×160 feet.
- froindt 8y agoI guess end zones count. I had them excluded. Knocks it down to 16.2 feet.
- Y_Y 8y ago>Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. - Mitch Hedberg I know what you mean, and I sympathise that it's a difficult problem. I suppose I tend to think of "a billion cubic metres" as more like one big cubic kilometre than a billion small things. There's some art to merging some numbers into units, but I don't know anyone who's solved it.