Comment on Banana for scale

• RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much.

  Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.

  And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”

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• TownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is 1,000 horses, obviously.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beat me to it

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  3 horsepowers at the wheels

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