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"4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms"
by waldarbeiter 10mo ago
"4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms"
- ihaveajob 10mo agoI guess you're quoting it because it is EXACTLY four million kilograms?
- NitpickLawyer 10mo agoProbably for our freedom unit loving friends, they have a different ton (because why not).
- throwway120385 10mo agoOur freedom tons are built for our particularly large trucks.
- MisterTea 10mo agoBelieve it or not the Europeans run heavier trucks than Americans. Ours just get to be longer.
- localuser13 10mo agoI also like to take potshots at Americans, but come on. It's unlikely that a newspaper called "the berliner" in a article about Berlin included this line specifically thinking about citizens of a far-away foreign country who don't use metric units that often. Occam's razor says that it's actually one of our noble and enlightened European journalists who made that sloppy remark without realising it.
- __MatrixMan__ 10mo agoThey only reported one significant figure, could be as little as 3500. kg or as much as 4499.99999... kg
- Perz1val 10mo agoLLMs couldn't've written that!
- mathieuh 10mo agoMaybe targeted at Americans and using US customary short tons (which is 907 kg)
- tosti 10mo ago4,000 tonnes is almost exactly 4 tonne. Could be 4,0004 tonne.
- badc0ffee 10mo agoThat's not how the comma separator works in English.
- mindslight 10mo agoAs an American, I'm going to need this as a volume, either in terms of Olympic-sized swimming pools or the height of a pile in an [American] football stadium. Maybe I'd accept weight as a quantity of Ford F-150s, but you'd be pushing it.
- nayuki 10mo ago"4k tons" is 4 gigagrams (Gg).