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minus-square☭SaltyIcetea☭ @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up16·4 days agoone thing i enjoy way more than i should is use units that are technically correct, but no one uses them like ever. like megagrams instead of metric tonnes. or 1 dekameter instead of 10 meters.
minus-squareBilb!@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoI only use metric when it’s in forms nobody else uses or recognizes at a glance because I need to be difficult. Decimeter is perfect for like, height of a person, for example. Why do they use CM?
minus-squareMy Rum is Vodka!@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 days ago Why do they use CM? Precision. “17dm” can be anything between 16.5dm or 17.5dm. You could of course say “I’m 17.5dm tall”, but at this point “I’m 175cm tall” is shorter (no dot). That said I’ve seen plenty people measuring height in metres and then centimetres. Usually something like “I’m one [metre] and 75 [centimetres] tall”.
minus-square☭SaltyIcetea☭ @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agodecimeters is perfectly fine. basically all volume calculations boil down to dm³ as 1 dm³ = 1L
minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoI measure battery capacity and electricity consumption in J/kJ/MJ, as intended. None of that kWh bullshit. It also makes for fun comparison with energy value of foods. Energy is energy, after all.
minus-squareblackbelt352@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agohttps://youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc Relevant Technology Connections
minus-square☭SaltyIcetea☭ @lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoim a fan of giving energy in: kg • m² ÷ s²
minus-squareFooBarrington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoWhat, you still multiply by an arbitrary constant? I remember back before I switched to: kg • c²
one thing i enjoy way more than i should is use units that are technically correct, but no one uses them like ever.
like megagrams instead of metric tonnes.
or 1 dekameter instead of 10 meters.
I only use metric when it’s in forms nobody else uses or recognizes at a glance because I need to be difficult. Decimeter is perfect for like, height of a person, for example. Why do they use CM?
Precision. “17dm” can be anything between 16.5dm or 17.5dm.
You could of course say “I’m 17.5dm tall”, but at this point “I’m 175cm tall” is shorter (no dot).
That said I’ve seen plenty people measuring height in metres and then centimetres. Usually something like “I’m one [metre] and 75 [centimetres] tall”.
decimeters is perfectly fine. basically all volume calculations boil down to dm³ as 1 dm³ = 1L
I measure battery capacity and electricity consumption in J/kJ/MJ, as intended. None of that kWh bullshit.
It also makes for fun comparison with energy value of foods.
Energy is energy, after all.
https://youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc
Relevant Technology Connections
im a fan of giving energy in: kg • m² ÷ s²
What, you still multiply by an arbitrary constant? I remember back before I switched to: kg • c²