For example,

60 seconds = 1 minute

60 minutes = 1 hour

24 hours = 1 day

7 day = 1 week

29-31 days = Month (approx.)

365/366 days = year

It’s like for the imperial measurement of distance, where 1 mile = 5280 feet…

Edit: just to clarify, I’m more or less keen towards any consistent, decimal-based measurement systems like base-10 or base-12.

  • Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Feet are handier than meters and gallons are better than liters.

    Wrong, youre just used to them. I roughly know what a liter of something weights, usually around a kg. A gallon tho? wtf i would know? I can easily compare meters of length to my arms or height, but i need more complex divisions for feet

    • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      A foot is as long as my forearm and a little longer than a literal foot, unless you’ve got big feet. An inch is as wide as my thumb which I have used to measure things cuz it’s pretty exact. You’re right that I don’t know how much a gallon is in pounds though. It’s like… more than a bag of apples but less than a box of soda

          • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            1 litre of water weighs 1 kilogram. It also takes up a space of 1dm^3, or a cube that’s 1x1x1dm. How is this possible? Because 1 times 1 times 1 always equals 1, so your cube is always 1 cubic decimetre. Or 0.01 decametre. Or 0.001 metre. Of course we can change some sides of this cube and still get 1dm^3.

            I can do it the other way around too, 1 kilogram of water weighs 1 litre! And I can do it as many times as I want to!

            • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              1 year ago

              1 gallon fills around 20 glasses which is about 10 tummies worth of fluid which if drunken all at once will make you weigh 1 baby heavier and produce 1 toilet worth of vomit.

              I don’t want to do it the other way around

              • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                I can do it with other units too. 1l of water at 20C heated by 1C converts to 1 calorie. The average glass holds 330ml of fluid, so I need to expand 0.33 calories to heat that glass up by 1C.

                I actually kinda like the idea of the gallon due to how much beer that represents in a small unit, 1l is tiny.