Don’t imperial have like 3 different letter sizes depending on the country?
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lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks agoSome people will use some letter salad just to avoid the imperial system /s
Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
From what I have found, the US has 216mm × 279mm while Canada has 215mm × 280mm which is close enough.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities. (John Bazel)
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Is that something people wonder about? I doubt it.
the_beber@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s not like physicists, chemists or engineers are a thing.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They are in fact 3 things
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I’m glad you admit yourself it’s not a thing
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
As someone with both solar panels and a water kettle I promise you this is something I frequently wonder about!
Andonyx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A BTU (British thermal unit) is the energy required to raise 1lb of water 1 degree Fahrenheit…which may actually be even dumber, since it’s temperature sensitive to begin with. Dumbest of all, the Brits don’t use that unit very often. The US, and, I assume, Liberia use it all the time.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Oh, I love these freedom units
saigot@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Unfortunately converting 1 calorie to joules ruins everything 4.2J per calorie. Makes it annoying to calculate how quickly you can boil water for instance.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Iirc the Joule is favoured over the Calorie in the SI system.