Comment on Florida ounces

iveseenthat@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it’s 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

  Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it’s brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that’s optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that’s not better than your silly metric system!

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.

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  • Screamium@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My toilet bowl blew up after I returned from Europe and forgot to convert from tons to ass-loads

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m gonna need that in fractions or multiples of a Rhode Island.

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