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> a cubic meter is 1000 liters exactly This is not a argument for the size of a meter itself, it's simply noting that we've made a system of related measuremen
by dudeinjapan 4y ago
> a cubic meter is 1000 liters exactly
This is not a argument for the size of a meter itself, it's simply noting that we've made a system of related measurements using base 10. We could get the same result using "football field" as the base unit of length and make 1 cubic football field equal to 1000 "swimming pools" (volume).
- Doxin 4y agoWell yes obviously. Measuring systems are largely arbitrary. The nice thing about metric is that is has been (arbitrarily) designed so you basically only ever run into conversions by multiples of 10. You could most definitely redefine imperial measurements to work like that no problem. But they haven't been in the real world and that makes it a rather annoying system to work with since you run into weird fractions all the time when using it.