@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • edit-21 month agoMakes more sense than the Imperial systemfeddit.orgimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1613arrow-down117
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minus-square@BluesFlinkEnglish14•1 month agoI think he’s proposing a skele-ton which is 0.01 tons, (i.e. 10kg), not a skelegram which is 10,000g. A skele-gram in this case would be 0.01g.
minus-square@someguy3linkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoWell a metric tonne is based on a prefix, so a prefix to that is a double prefix. Skelemegagram to suit that situation which is the wrong way to do it.
I think he’s proposing a skele-ton which is 0.01 tons, (i.e. 10kg), not a skelegram which is 10,000g. A skele-gram in this case would be 0.01g.
Well a metric tonne is based on a prefix, so a prefix to that is a double prefix. Skelemegagram to suit that situation which is the wrong way to do it.
Sure, but the joke is skele-ton
where’s the prefix in “ton”/“tonne”?