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Save your sanity, don't bother learning the conversion factors. Did you know that most of us don't even know how to convert between our own units? I invite you

Save your sanity, don't bother learning the conversion factors. Did you know that most of us don't even know how to convert between our own units? I invite you to go around and ask 'how many pints are in a gallon?'. It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize that there are four quarts in a gallon... I have no such trouble with any SI unit. So with that, I will leave you with this! "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'The French were right again!'"

toolslive 1y ago
> Save your sanity, don't bother learning the conversion factors. They were drilled into my brain when I was in primary school: 10, 100 and 1000.
- Symbiote 1y ago
  Even before real school started, I think many of us in Europe played with base ten blocks. As far as I know they are always centimetre-sized, so the 1000-cube is a litre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ten_blocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ten_blocks