Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    51·
    4 months ago

    and the (almost) adoption in the US.

    For example:

    • 1 bushel is exactly 64 dry pints.

    • 1 dry pint is exactly 107521/92400 liquid pints.

    • 1 liquid pint is exactly 231/8 cubic inches.

    • We formally defined the inch in terms of the metric system in the 1950s as being precisely 2.54 centimeters.

    Thus making the bushel exactly 220244188543/6250000 cubic centimeters.¹

    ¹ Unless you’re talking about an oat bushel, a barley bushel, a wheat bushel, or a few other exceptions.

    • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dkEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Well, that is neat. When using metric and celsius:

      • 1 kilometer is 1.000 meters.
      • 1 square meter of water weighs exactly 1 tonne. (1.000 kilo also known as a kilokilo)
      • The vastly superior metric dozen is exactly 10.
      • Water freezes at exactly 0 degrees.
      • 1 meter of water takes exactly 100 minutes - a metric hour - to completely evaporate when heated to 100 degrees. Doing so requires exactly 1 kilowatt of power.