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Where are the metric units? All I see is prefixes explained
My sibling in Satan, thatās the backbone of the metric system. Nobody said anything about units.
To further add to this, a unit would be something basic like litre, metre, or a gram. So 1000 litres is a kilolitre. 1000 metres is a kilometre. 1000 grams is a kilogram. You may be familiar with the computer byte. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A megabyte is 1000 of those. Everything is divisible by 10, and everything makes sense.
Interestingly, even though a calorie isnāt a metric unit (the joule is), the energy to raise 1 millilitre of water by 1 degree Celsius is 1 calorie.
Also, 1 gram of water is 1 millilitre. And if you measure that in size, thatās 1 cubic centimetre. So if you go buy a litre of water, you know itāll be 1000 cubic centimetres, and itāll weight 1kg.
Gotcha, so weāre talking kilotons and microinches then?
Or is it actually the units that make the metric system scary to Americans?
Woodworkers use the āmetric systemā all the time it seems. āThousandths of an inchā is a common unit.
The red squiggly underlines make me sad.
This isnāt the metric system.
Iām an American and I approve this message.
This just made me think, why havenāt those damn commie Europeans with their fancy metric system come up with a better system for measuring time yet?
People like to talk a lot of shit about how subjective the definitions for an inch or a mile are, but I never hear complaints about how a second or an hour are antiquated and based on things that only make sense from an Earth-centric point of view.
I just feel like someone be mad at Americans for still using hours (ugh, trivially decided on the amount of time it takes the Earth to rotate) and not something like the amount of time it takes for 1 kilogram of water to decay via natural radiation when under a vacuum.
By the way, before downvoting, this post is heavy with /s in case it wasnāt obvious.
Edit: I just looked up the formal definition of a second and it is āthe duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atomā.
