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I’m always disappointed that megameter isn't a common word. People will say “one thousand kilometers” instead of just “one megameter”.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm more disappointed the world renamed one thousand million from milliard to billion.
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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.
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When translating to Finnish it's confusing sometimes:
Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000
Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000
Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
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The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it's pretty close to the golden ratio.
Even if you don't remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ...
So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)
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Why not just keep it simple and use the 5.4 microseconds * speed of light approximation? People just love making things overly complicated.
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Metric will never recover from not being base-12. Ease of use and intuitiveness suddenly trumps "objective" design. We'd have metric time right now, smh.
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The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it's pretty close to the golden ratio.
Even if you don't remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ...
So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)
This has blown my mind
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When translating to Finnish it's confusing sometimes:
Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000
Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000
Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000
You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.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.
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This has blown my mind
Fucking Dan Brown in the comment section
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We don't count in base-12. Redesign the numerical system first and get it adopted world wide. I'll wait.
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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.
Anglocentrism strikes again!
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Fucking Dan Brown in the comment section
Lmao your username is awesome
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Lmao your username is awesome
Thank you, kind stranger on the internet!
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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.
Or just \ at the end, like so
Texty text text \ TextBecomes
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The only metric to imperial conversion I remember is kilometers to miles since it's pretty close to the golden ratio.
Even if you don't remember that the golden ratio is 1.6 and a bit, you can approximate it by using successive terms of the Fibonacci sequence.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 ...
So 8 miles is about 13km (actually 12.87)
Its 2.54 cm to the inch. Its close to 2.5 and as an engineer in America I am stuck doing that conversion a lot
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If only they made a meter equal a yard. Then we could all be bilingual.
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Again, anglocentrism strikes. Your feeling is strictly based on your personal experience with your own words. It is like when Americans claim fahrenheit is more for humans than celsius, because they are unable to fathom things they have no experience with.
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Thank you, kind stranger on the internet!
You’re welcome, @[email protected]
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If only they made a meter equal a yard. Then we could all be bilingual.
I've tried the bi thing - it's just not for me.
