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Request - Preferably Use SI Units

posted by LaminatorX on Monday February 24 2014, @12:30AM   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: 2, Insightful) by No Respect on Monday February 24 2014, @02:48AM

    by No Respect (991) on Monday February 24 2014, @02:48AM (#5468)

    I anticipate at least a few stories about the severe water shortage affecting the western US states that are in the midst of a drought that has already been going on for a decade (more or less). Discussions of how much water is available where are invariably in units of "acre feet". I don't think converting that to liters is a good idea. Of course, it is primarily a US-centric issue, so when in Rome...

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by mhajicek on Monday February 24 2014, @05:45AM

    by mhajicek (51) on Monday February 24 2014, @05:45AM (#5587)

    Build aqueducts?

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    The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @09:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @09:13AM (#5691)

    The next size up from liter is cubic meter = 1000 liter.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @03:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @03:23PM (#5869)

      Wrong. The next (actually used) size up from liter is hectoliter = 100 liter. (The prefic hecto- always means 100; technically you could also use dekaliter for 10 liter, but I've never heard that).