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> Aside, are the mega and giga prefixes ever used for anything except bits and bytes? Sure, few examples of the top of my head: - Megatons, as in yield of nuc
by jabl 7y ago
> Aside, are the mega and giga prefixes ever used for anything except bits and bytes?
Sure, few examples of the top of my head:
- Megatons, as in yield of nuclear weapons. Which is a bit odd unit, should be in J, goddammit!
- Similarly, energy consumption/production. Commonly used units MWh, GWh, TWh. Again, the proper unit would be J, not Wh. Or Mtoe, for Million tons of oil equivalent.
- garmaine 7y ago> Megatons, as in yield of nuclear weapons. Which is a bit odd unit, should be in J, goddammit! That’s what is odd about it? It should be teragrams.
- jabl 7y agoIt's a measure of energy, hence the unit should be J (with some appropriate prefix).
- jsjohnst 7y agoPeta- would be the appropriate prefix. 4.184 PJ is 1 megaton.
- a1369209993 7y agoActually, it should be grams. 51.3162(...) grams, to be somewhat precise.
- apt-get 7y agoYield of explosives is generally measured in kilograms of TNT, that's why.
- garmaine 7y agoWhoosh.