superkret to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · edit-22 days agoMakes more sense than the Imperial systemimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1592arrow-down117
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minus-squaresuperkretOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-22 days agoSI units are fun! My car needs 7 liters of gas per 100 km. 7 liters / 100 km = 7 dm³ / 100 km = 0.007m³ / 100,000 m = 0.000007 m² = 0.07 mm² The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader. Bonus trivia: The newest SI prefixes are only 2 years old: quetta (Q) = 1030 ronna (R) = 1027 ronto (r) = 10-27 quecto (q) = 10-30
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-21 day agoThe area of the base of a tube as long as the lenght of travel that would contain the volume of gasoline needed to travel said distance.
minus-squaresushibowl@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days ago The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader. https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant.
SI units are fun!
My car needs 7 liters of gas per 100 km.
7 liters / 100 km =
7 dm³ / 100 km =
0.007m³ / 100,000 m =
0.000007 m² =
0.07 mm²
The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.
Bonus trivia: The newest SI prefixes are only 2 years old:
The area of the base of a tube as long as the lenght of travel that would contain the volume of gasoline needed to travel said distance.
Go go gadget dong!
https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant.