5 tomatoes
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Way off! There are 25.4 millimeters per inch, not 64, and most measuring tapes have 1/32" markings.
Haven't had my coffee, you're right it's closer to 1/32.
Most measuring tapes in US don't go smaller than a 1/16th though.
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Is kibimeter a technically allowed measurement? That would be fun!
Yes, the same way that kiloinches is technically allowed.
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People will say “one thousand kilometers”
Will they though? I don't talk about distances that large anywhere near often enough to really need a shorthand for it, personally. Had to even look up what things are approximately 1000km apart to even know what to imagine it as (it's about the distance between Paris and Berlin).
Comes up a literal metric ass load (8 bushels) when your talking about travel in the USA.
We big
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The inventors of Markdown thought they would do something devastatingly clever and eat newlines if the next line has content. That way, if you're writing Markdown in the Stone Age and your editor doesn't support soft-wrap (it's a stone tablet), you can do your own soft-wrap and Markdown will "helpfully" eat all the newlines (unless there are two or more).
Of course this has done nothing to help and instead caused chaos and confusion for anyone non-technical. Very clever
It would be more useful if there were comments in markdown.
Like, it's helpful when organising your writing and thoughts in LaTeX that you can write one line per sentence, double newline for end of paragraph.
It becomes immediately clear when a sentence is too long and comments for collaborators (or yourself) are easier to handle than in something like Word or Google Docs.
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You probably want double new lines in your posts. Or two spaces at the end of your paragraphs but that's usually a bit annoying to do.
Thanks! Forgot to do that. Now edited.
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Taking it even further who the fuck uses inches or cms for vegetable cutting measurements anyway, it's like, one or two fingers thick
Why not make it even more ambiguous by specifying the desired cutting width in "circumference of my dick".
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1 BTU heats 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit.
How many BTUs are there in a big mac?
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Heeey, I’m currently living in Northglenn. Same, it’s forever etched in my memory.
What the heck does this mean? Is the number 5280 just painted all over billboards in Denver?
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"the world"?
If you came over to the other side of the pond, you'd find that most of Europe is still using milliard, billiard, trilliard etc.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Crazy assumption.
While the word is still in use in some languages, the short system has mostly replaced the long system for numbering, especially in the English speaking world.
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So whose foot exactly?
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And to remember the number of yards in a mile: 1 San Francisco
One-seven-six-oh
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Why not make it even more ambiguous by specifying the desired cutting width in "circumference of my dick".
Would that be flacid dick inches or erect dick inches?
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Whose feet‽
It does not matter, all feet have roughly the same size.
-- the shoe company
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“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
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In Scandinavia we have "mil" which everyone uses, 1 mil, or Scandinavian mile as it is known in English, is 10km. Cuts down ln zeroes. I love this but no one else(outside of Scandinavia) uses it.I typically get a lot of pushback mentioning it to my international peers.
Sweden and Norway only. Few people in Denmark know what a mil is. And virtually no one here uses it.
Yeah-yeah; something something Denmark. I know....
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Base 12 is easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12
5,280 ft in a mile is fucking nonsense though
If an alien species has 12 fingers to our 10, would they work in base 12 as normally as we use 10s? Like would their whole system end (or start) with a 0 or equivalent and not end all different?
My maths coherence is too high-school for this thinking, but now its in there.
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well neither astronomical unit nor light years use meters as a reference. and one of those isnt even accurate (AU)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think AUs are just meant to mean "far away (like much much further away than the pub)".
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Do we have meter cola?
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If an alien species has 12 fingers to our 10, would they work in base 12 as normally as we use 10s? Like would their whole system end (or start) with a 0 or equivalent and not end all different?
My maths coherence is too high-school for this thinking, but now its in there.
There's really nothing special about base 10 numbering, it just feels natural to us. They probably would use base 12 and just have 2 extra symbols for the digits after 9. Example 10 x 10 = 100 in both base 10 and base 12 math. It's just the translation of that in base 12 to base 10 looks like 12 × 12 = 144 to us.
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If an alien species has 12 fingers to our 10, would they work in base 12 as normally as we use 10s? Like would their whole system end (or start) with a 0 or equivalent and not end all different?
My maths coherence is too high-school for this thinking, but now its in there.
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 20, 21, ..., A0, A1, A3, ...
You can use your hands to count in base 12 if you want to, and some cultures have done so. Just use the segments on your fingers on one hand, using your thumb to count each segment.
