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phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One mile is 5280 feet, one foot is 12 inches. One square foot is 144 square inches, one cubic foot is 1728 cubic inches.

  1 gallon of water is 8.34 pounds, and 1 cubic foot is 7.48 gallons, so a cubic foot of water weighs 62.38 pounds. If sand is 2.3 times heavier than water, a cubic foot of sand weighs 143.5 pounds.

  I am 5 feet 10 inches tall, or 5.83 feet, or 70 inches. I weigh about 220 pounds, or 3520 ounces. If I’m 65% water, I carry about 143 pounds of water, or a little over 16 gallons.

  Guh

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  • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bit silly to mix decimal with non-base 10 measurements!

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    • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s worse than that. Inches are base 12, ounces and cups are base 16, machinists use thousandths of an inch, and surveyors use tenths of a foot!

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      • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And computers use base 2. Bastards.

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  • Preflight_Tomato@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I had to check the math because 1 m^2^ being 2300 kg while 1 cu ft at 143 lbs seemed crazy, but with the volume difference it’s all correct.

    Thank you for putting in the effort 🙃

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To illustrate, 1m³ = (100cm)³ = 1,000,000cm³ = (1000mm)³ = 1,000,000,000mm³

      You go from the single dimensional conversion between m and cm being a factor of 100 and 1000 for m and mm, to the 3 dimensional conversion being a factor of 1 million for m and cm or 1 billion for m and mm. It scales up fast.

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cool.

    Also great way to miss the point.

    Now, no calculator. How many feet is 0.683 miles?

    I know that 0.683 kilometers is 683 meters.

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That was totally logical to me

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• DeanFogg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Height in imperial is kinda useful. If you say a person is 4 foot tall vs 6 foot tall it immediately paints a vivid picture

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  • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This isn’t some intrinsic value. What you’re used to makes the most sense. If you were used to measuring people’s height in meters, 1.3 meters vs 2 meters would paint just as vivid a picture.

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You get used to it. 150cm versus 180cm, since I don’t often meet anybody four foot tall.

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    • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Classroom supplies for elementary school always included a 30 cm ruler, so you’d immediately know what 30 cm difference is

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That paints nothing to me, nor anyone in the rest.od the world. That literally only works in the US and a few other thirds world countries…

    1-80 versus 2 meter does the same and makes sense

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• macaroni1556@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What a great snapshot of life in Canada

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Actually, I think the entire world minus two or three countries,.one of them being the US of A.

    By pure coincidence I do live in Canada, but I’m dutch. Also lived in Mexico. Everything is metric and easy, unlike the USA.

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    • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your late reply made me realize I replied to the entirely wrong comment and yeah I make no sense.

      I meant to reply to the farming comment mentioning insane mixed units like Liters per Acre

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• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This guy/gal specific gravities.

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