someguy3 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).message-squaremessage-square167fedilinkarrow-up1545arrow-down129
arrow-up1516arrow-down1message-squareA metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).someguy3 to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square167fedilink
minus-squaretunetardislinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoPoint taken. Reading up on it on wikipedia, I love the the legal definition from 1814, wherein one inch = “three grains of sound ripe barley being taken out the middle of the ear, well dried, and laid end to end in a row”.
Point taken. Reading up on it on wikipedia, I love the the legal definition from 1814, wherein one inch = “three grains of sound ripe barley being taken out the middle of the ear, well dried, and laid end to end in a row”.