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A billion grams. A million kilograms. A thousand tonnes. …one kilotonne?
by codetrotter 5y ago
A billion grams. A million kilograms. A thousand tonnes.
…one kilotonne?
- _Microft 5y agoIsn’t that as much weed as the Dark Lord smoked per hour? Edit: english subtitles say „hundreds“ while it is actually „thousand“ in the German version. ~1 minute into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVKaj9hVcY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPVKaj9hVcY
- grumple 5y agoA gigagram?
- skripp 5y ago1 gigagram, for us Europeans. ;) Edit: it would most likely be written as one thousand tonnes.
- dluan 5y agoconversely, in europe, do you hit up your dealer for 10 micro tonnes of weed?
- NullPrefix 5y agoA thousand tonnes is ambiguous because you cannot know if it's metric tonnes or not. A billion grams is unambiguous, because a billion prefix for the regular reader would mean pretty much the same as infinity. The 0.0000001 as the multiplier after billion prefix doesn't discount that, because you still have to read the billion out loud.
- Clewza313 5y agoOddly enough, "one billion" can mean different amounts in different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scale
- _Microft 5y agoIsn't a "tonne" always 1000kg, while they only would have to disambiguate if they had written "ton"? Edit: yes, seems to be like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne
- fuzzfactor 5y agoThere's always this authoritative reference documenting some unambiguous weights & measures terminology: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metric%20Fuckton https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Metric%20Fuc...
- dylan604 5y agoDoes it make your head go Boom like an H-Bomb? That would be one hell of a marketing campaign
- OJFord 5y agoTonne is the more common form for (but exactly equivalent to, assuming metric tonnes) the SI megagram (Mg). Anyone that would use the hypothetical 'kilotonne' would use 'Gg' instead. Agriculture works in tonnes though, not SI prefixed grams, so it would just be 1000t. (Source: from writing a lot of code for doing conversions and display and things with differently denominated quantities for ag users!)
- R0b0t1 5y agoThere's no reason not to use kiloton.
- OJFord 5y agoSure, it's just as fine as tonne in the first place (I assume you do mean (metric) tonnes, kilo with Imperial or US customary tons would seem to me as weird as calling thou 'milli-inches'). But does anyone actually use it? We use plain t everywhere because, afaik, that's what the users want, how they think about it even if it's thousands or more of them.