Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoBanana for scalemedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square181linkfedilinkarrow-up1684arrow-down111
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minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9·12 days agoImperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much. Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176. And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much.
Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.
And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”