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Request - Preferably Use SI Units

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the How-many-slugs-to-the-stone? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"I have the following requests to members of this new forum:

1) Please use SI Units wherever possible. Alternative comparative units such as swimming pools, size of Florida, cars, libraries of congress, etc are also welcome ...

2) Please cover tech/science related stories from around the world. Please do not make this a US only website !!

Cheers and best wishes,

AnonTechie"

[ED Note: We as a community welcome submissions from around the world, as befits our international userbase. The Editorial team in particular is looking closely at including voices from outside the U.S. as we continue to grow. As for the units question in particular, stories will certainly arrive with a variety of units depending on the origin of the submission. We encourage, though do not require, submitters to include conversions where appropriate for clarity out of courtesy to your fellow readers. Though we try to use a light touch when making edits to story submissions, Editors may add these from time to time as well, should clarity demand and time permit.

Soylentils, does the current ad-hoc approach meet your needs, or do you favor a more formal approach from your news discussion site?]

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by sjwt on Monday February 24 2014, @12:13AM

    by sjwt (2826) on Monday February 24 2014, @12:13AM (#5521)

    Indeed, its just (un)common sense, something I used to think /. had some of, but after seeing the stupid grow over the years I just lost faith..

    Generally things don't need to be a perfect conversion, and in day to day measurements it can be stupid to do so.. Take this for an example, those initial figures where from a /. argument about metric conversion that popped up for some reason.

    "Today the temp. is 26.67C(80F), wind speed is 273589(17mph) Decimeters per hour, and damn my kids growing up, he is now 1752.6mm(5'9") tall"

    We would say 26C, 27Kph and 175cm.
    If you really measure your high to 1/5" (5mm),
    your temperature to less than 1/4 degree F(0.5C) and your speed to 0.6mpg (1KPH) fine, but the rest of the world deals with it quite fine driving there 4.9M long cars at 100KPH on a nice sunny 28C day and you sir can travel in your 16' 54/60" long cars at 62.14MPH on a nice sunny 82.4F

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