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I want us to start using megameters. And gigameters. And instead of (metric) tons, I want megagrams. No kilotons; gigagrams.
by mort96 3y ago
I want us to start using megameters. And gigameters.
And instead of (metric) tons, I want megagrams. No kilotons; gigagrams.
- llm_trw 3y agoBe the change you want to see. I remember the first time I got those units out of gnu units on the command line scratching my head wondering why I'd never used them before and why it was using them at the same time.
- zmgsabst 3y agoI’m personally partial to attolightyears (about 1cm).
- Chris2048 3y agoSurely you'd use the base unit of time, the second (lightseconds)? atto-lightyear = 1e-18 lightyear lightyear = 3.156e+7 lightsecond Hence, atto-lightyear = 3.156e-11 lightsecond = 31.56 pico-lightsecond
- walthamstow 3y agoBrewers introduced me to this with hectolitres
- darkwater 3y agoHectolitres and hectograms are used fairly often (the latter, daily) in Italian, for example.
- walthamstow 3y agoHectolitre is 100 litres, not 100ml, but hectogram is 100g, not 100kg? Very confusing!
- mort96 3y agoI mean Hecto = 100 Hectoliter = 100 litres Hectogram = 100 grams Kilo = 1000 Kiloliter = 1000 litres Kilogram = 1000 grams It doesn't look that confusing?
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- jagger27 3y agoWell yeah, litres and grams are the base units. Just because 1ml is 1g of water doesn't change how SI prefixes work.
- walthamstow 3y agoI would have thought if gram is the base unit for weight then millilitre is the base for volume, but I must be wrong