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minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish24•edit-23 months 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 arrow-up124arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish20•edit-23 months 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. arrow-up120arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoGo go gadget dong! arrow-up11arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish12•3 months ago The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader. https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant. arrow-up112arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
minus-square@MisterFroglinkEnglish3•3 months agoI know this is a joke, but could help myself: you can’t always just cancel units like this. It’s more like 0.007 m3(fuel burned) / 100,000 m(travelled) Can’t really cancel those. arrow-up13arrow-down10file-textreply1starmore-verticalmailMessageflagCreate ReportslashBlock user
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.
I know this is a joke, but could help myself: you can’t always just cancel units like this.
It’s more like 0.007 m3(fuel burned) / 100,000 m(travelled)
Can’t really cancel those.