a mile? what’s that in barleycorns?
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Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Yall just jealous that a mile is longer than a kilometer.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 years ago
My dick is 11 units while Yours only 6.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Which mile are you talking about?
Chinese mile is only half a kilometer, but the others are all longer indeed. The international mile is still quite short in comparison to other miles.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If we’re just going to call the Li a Chinese mile then a French Mile is exactly a kilometre.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I was going with this list: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Comparison_table
It seems they also translate mile into Li in Chinese.
dafo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
In Swedish (maybe also Norweigan and Danish too?) we have a"mil" which is 10 km, I wish this was more wide spread because it’s fairly convenient.
It could even be called a mile! We already have ton/tonne which is just an absolute nightmare of a unit, so we might as well add more confusion to “mile”.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Yes, I read about it, it’s also called Scandinavian mile or metric mile.
We still use metricized ton [Tonne] (1Mg / 1000kg) and rarely pound [Pfund] (5hg / 500g) in Germany. And hundredweight/quintal [Zentner], which is 50kg (100 pound) in Germany, but 100kg in Switzerland and Austria.
It could even be called a mile! We already have ton/tonne which is just an absolute nightmare of a unit, so we might as well add more confusion to “mile”.
It’s not more confusion, these kinds of units never had a uniform definition to begin with. The metric system got new unit names to get clear unit definitions. US survey mile was just given up last year. Nautical miles are still different.
The metric system that was invented in France had three main goals: based on decimal numbers, clear definition and to derive measures of length and weight from nature.
The last point is important to have a constant measure that doesn’t slowly change over time and to make it reproducible.
The US mile shrunk by 1⁄8 inch in 1959 after they adopted the international mile, which was agreed upon UK and some of it’s former colonies to resynchronize their units that slowly developed apart over time.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s the opposite. I’ve lived in both modern, and backward countries.
When you’re driving somewhere and you see “50” to your destination, it’s infinitely preferable for that to be Km rather than miles. Makes every journey shorter
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
50 to your destination vs 80
I think I’d rather take 50 actually
HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
I’d rather drive 130 km/h than 80 mph…
Donebrach@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The superior measure is Hectare/Damselfoot.