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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
500M MT
Stacking metric prefixes. That’s how big the problem is.
Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
500M MT
Stacking metric prefixes. That’s how big the problem is.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
woah. your comment just helped me figure out the difference between a metric tonne (2200 ish pounds yank / 1,000 kg evaporating parisian units) and a short ton. (2000 pounds yank / 900 kg evaporating parisian units)
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
The kilogram is no longer defined as a fraction of the mass of the Paris etalon. Now it’s defined so that Planck constant ℎ = 6.62607015 × 10⁻³⁴ kg m²/s, where 1 s is 9 192 631 770 oscillations of ¹³³Cs and 1 m is how long light travels in 1/299 792 458 s in vacuum.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yeah, because all y’all didn’t notice your precious kilogram EVAPORATED UNTIL 7 YEARS AGO HOW LAME
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
The pound has been defined as 0.453 592 37 kg since 1959, having relied on the slightly evaporating Parisian etalon for 60 years. You have no moral high ground.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re the same thing.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
Duh. Do you think they’d change the value significantly?