by "not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada)
Published 09/01/2017 at 14:50
by "not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada)
Published 09/01/2017 at 14:50
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If 1000 metres is a kilometre, and 1000 grams is a kilogramme, could you say that 1000 litres is a kilolitre?
Makes you think.
"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck)
09/01/2017 at 14:51, STARS: 6
Yes.
"CB" (jrcb)
09/01/2017 at 14:52, STARS: 2
Yes.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
09/01/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 1
Yes.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/01/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 4
Not trying to be a jerk, but that’s the whole premise of the metric system. Prefix denotes the quantity of the unit on a 10-base count so that its easy to specify something like a nanosecond or a petabyte without having to say “Ok, you know a mile/ounce/cup? We’re going to create a new unit called an elbow and it’s going to equal 7 of those things.”
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
09/01/2017 at 14:54, STARS: 0
Meter*
Gram*
Liter*
"CB" (jrcb)
09/01/2017 at 14:57, STARS: 0
While also accepted, you’re mostly wrong.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
09/01/2017 at 15:00, STARS: 1
Bruh.
"vicali" (vicali)
09/01/2017 at 15:08, STARS: 3
But my elbow is a bit smaller than a British elbow so we’ll just have two with the same name but different amounts. I’m looking at you gallon.
"E90M3" (e90m3)
09/01/2017 at 15:08, STARS: 1
Yes, but it’s usually called a cubic meter, since that’s 1000 L.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/01/2017 at 15:09, STARS: 1
1024 bytes in a kilobyte.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
09/01/2017 at 15:12, STARS: 1
That’s not a metric/imperial argument though, it’s a binary feature.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
09/01/2017 at 15:13, STARS: 1
As someone who uses english units and metric units every single day interchangeably I have no issues kilo-liter or cubic meter.
BTW, for a real brain fuck I have this table taped to the back of my calculator.
"vicali" (vicali)
09/01/2017 at 15:14, STARS: 1
Yep.. Did you skip Science 8 or something?
"promoted by the color red" (whenindoubtflatout)
09/01/2017 at 15:15, STARS: 2
It’s called a Royale with cheese.
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/01/2017 at 15:15, STARS: 1
Also ton, of which could be either metric or imperial, short or long.
Just to keep life exciting, lets start using the same measurement for mass and volume and make sure that an ounce of water does not weight an ounce. And lets make sure it’s not divisible by a nice number either.
"vicali" (vicali)
09/01/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 1
Hmm, sure is cold out, like say 20 degrees.. yep, that’s some good measurin’..
"benjrblant" (benjblant)
09/01/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
There is a metric (SI) measurement (1000)and a binary measurement (1024) . This is sometimes why a drive advertised as a 500gb HD has a lesser formatted capacity.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/01/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 1
Junior year of high school I had a 20 minute argument with my Physics teacher over it.
"Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer" (smallbear94)
09/01/2017 at 15:21, STARS: 0
You mean metric vs imperial?
Sounds fun
"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
09/01/2017 at 15:29, STARS: 0
Add-on (for science jerks):
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"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/01/2017 at 15:31, STARS: 1
The 500gb HD has a lower formatted capacity because the formatting consumes some of the space on the drive with lookup tables and the like. The lost space is actually directly proportional to the size of the drive (when the drives are formatted the same way).
There’s 1024 bytes in a kilobyte because 1023 is (2^10)-1, or 10 1's. Thus it is easiest to make a kilobyte be when you need 11 bits to represent the size instead of processing the number to figure out if it is larger than 999.
"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
09/01/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 1
Also
"not for canada - australian in disguise" (for-canada)
09/01/2017 at 15:32, STARS: 1
WRONG.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
09/01/2017 at 15:37, STARS: 1
By the time you are studying Physics at an AP level you don’t really care about imperial anymore and just use metric for everything. We were arguing about the fact that there were 1024 bytes in a kilobyte because he was insistent there were only 1000. He didn’t quite get that 1000 only makes sense as a differentiator when you are working in base 10 while 1024 is a good differentiator in base 2 (10000000000), base 8 (2000) and base 16 (400).
"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
09/01/2017 at 15:43, STARS: 0
ounce of water does not weight an ounce
Let’s have some fun and go mass and weight here ... ;-)
"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
09/01/2017 at 15:45, STARS: 0
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
09/01/2017 at 18:20, STARS: 0
Ugh. I like temperature, because that’s one of the few systems where both imperial and metric have very real pros and cons