Comment on 5 tomatoes

• kamen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s accurate when you need it to be and gets out of the way when you don’t. And if you do need the accuracy, you have a unit that doesn’t need fractions.

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• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is “accurate” an argument?? You can use any unit with any amount of decimal places. The argument is that it’s regular. You learn the prefixes once and apply them to length, volume, weight, …

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• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The biggest argument for metric is that it’s consistent. It takes 1 calories to heat 1k of water by 1 degree. State something similar in imperial units.

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  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1 BTU heats 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit.

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How many BTUs are there in a big mac?

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean 1 gram of water

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I do. Wrong letter.

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  • deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And isn’t 1kg of water 1L? And 1L is 1000 cubic cm? So a 10x10x10 cube?

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    100 degrees out is 100% hot. 0 degrees F is 0% hot

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• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most standard measuring tapes have 1/16th of an inch as the smallest fraction on the tape. 1mm is 1/64th. Which is one is “close enough”? Lol

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  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Way off! There are 25.4 millimeters per inch, not 64, and most measuring tapes have 1/32" markings.

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    • BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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