No, as I wrote at the other post, it's not coincidence.
First, that 1000 liters are a cubic meter is no coincidence because that's exactly how the liter is defined. Second, that a liter of water has the mass of 1 kilogram is no coincidence because that's how the kilogram was originally defined.
-- The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
yes your quite right i was thinking of it backwards the litre the kg are relatively arbitrary in that a kilogram and litre of water would be a bit bigger if the meter was.
but apart from the meter seems that water gets used for part of the definition a lot.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 22 2014, @12:15PM
No, as I wrote at the other post, it's not coincidence.
First, that 1000 liters are a cubic meter is no coincidence because that's exactly how the liter is defined.
Second, that a liter of water has the mass of 1 kilogram is no coincidence because that's how the kilogram was originally defined.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by blackest_k on Saturday March 22 2014, @02:21PM
yes your quite right i was thinking of it backwards the litre the kg are relatively arbitrary in that a kilogram and litre of water would be a bit bigger if the meter was.
but apart from the meter seems that water gets used for part of the definition a lot.