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I love these examples: Let's say you wanted to fill your bedroom up with water. How much water would it take? Let's say your room measures 10 feet by 12 fe
by Twirrim 8y ago
I love these examples:
Let's say you wanted to fill your bedroom up with water. How much water would it take? Let's say your room measures 10 feet by 12 feet wide by 8 feet high.
10 feet 12 feet 8 feet -> gallons
552960/77 (approx. 7181.298701298701)
It would take approximately 7181 gallons to fill it. Note that you get both an exact fraction and an approximation. (If you don't want to see the fraction, put a decimal point in any of the numbers, like 10. or 10.0.) How much would that weigh, if you filled it with water? Frink has the unit "water" which stands for the density of water.
10. feet 12 feet 8 feet water -> pounds
59930.84215309883
So it would weigh almost 60,000 pounds. What if you knew that your floor could only support 2 tons? How deep could you fill the room with water?
2. tons / (10 feet 12 feet water) -> feet
0.5339487791320047
So you could only fill it about 0.53 feet deep. It'll be a pretty sad pool party.
This sits firmly in the "Neat, and now I'm sad I don't have a practical use case for this"
- simias 8y agoAmusingly, this example wouldn't be nearly as impressive if you used metric units instead.
- arnarbi 8y agoIndeed 3 m 4 m 3 m -> liters 36000 3 m 4 m 3 m water -> kg 36000 2 metricton / (3 m 4 m water) -> m 1/6
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- maxerickson 8y agoUr carpenter is amazing.
- lucb1e 8y agoI'm not quite sure what this means, but your profile proves you're not a spam bot, so I guess I won't flag it... did you submit this in the wrong tab or am I missing something?
- 8_hours_ago 8y agoI’m guessing they meant that it would require a good carpenter to make a room exactly 3m x 4m x 3m
- seiferteric 8y agoThese are fun and I do them often, but you can just use google for most of this.
- blattimwind 8y agoGNU units
- lucb1e 8y agoOr Duckduckgo. For some reason GNU units never understands what I type, which is of course my own incompetence, but DDG does a fine job.
- etatoby 8y agoPrograms reflect the character of those who wrote them. That's why using GNU stuff is such a pain (for me, at least.) They are the most fastidious, unforgiving, unhelping pieces of software to ever be written.
- 6031769 8y agoIndeed. The most singularly maddening thing to read in a man page is undoubtedly "The full documentation for foo is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and foo programs are properly installed at your site, the command info foo should give you access to the complete manual."
- etatoby 8y agoYes, that is some next level BS. Why should I learn to use an arcane thing like info just to read a manual page, when 99% of the software on the same computer uses man? It's not just laziness. GNU software is usually good, but it has a strong hint of forcing your way onto other people, that I really dislike.
- scotty79 8y agoThere are lot's of cool ones: How much air in your room weighs? What power do you need to transfer energy at the same rate as when you fill tank of gasoline?