@freakonometrics
Of course there are two types of ton, long (2240 lb) and short (2000 lb). This has caused me professional difficulties in the past, trying to assess which sort of ton was used for the capacity of piles installed decades ago.
Did you know that in Québec une pinte = 1 quart = 2 pints?
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinte
@mpjgregoire @freakonometrics In very metric France, "un demi" is a half pint, not a half litre. That works only for beer.
But "un demi de rouge" is a half litre pitcher of wine.
It's still much less eff'ed up than the imperial system though, a minor inconvenience at worse.
@freakonometrics
As a Brit writing about energy (oil, gas, biofuels, etc) for a UK magazine I often interviewed/emailed people in the US about their work. The researchers were fine, science has been metric for 200 years but then I'd talk to manufacturers, farmers, grain wholesalers who'd brag about bushels per acre and barrels* of ethanol per ton of grain.
* A US barrel is 50 gallons. A UK barrel is 45 gallons. But they are the same size because US gallons are smaller.
Brilliant. Now I understa... actually, no, I'm still gobsmacked.
@freakonometrics Reminds me Jimmy Rees “Imperial Mesurements Explained”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDUt-Kbxqsg
#science #units #imperialMesurements #metricSystem #JimmyRees #humour
@freakonometrics I only recently looked up *how* the US gallon was defined (© wikipedia ofc):
>The US gallon is legally defined as exactly 231 cubic inches.
Ok, fine. But why 231?
> The wine gallon […] was at one time defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter, i.e. 6 in × (3.5 in)² × π ≈ 230.90706 ci. It was redefined in 1706 during the reign of Queen Anne as being exactly 231 ci, the earlier definition with π being approximated as 22/7.
this is hopeless…
@freakonometrics From « Washington's Dream », Saturday Night Live, 2023
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