#units of measurement

[victusinveritas]

[tyunningcore]

THE JOY I FELT HEARING METRIC SYSTEM UNITS ON THIS INSTEAD OF IMPERIAL

[queer-boo-radley]

[enuode-au]

About Writing Heights

Height is measured in blocks and pixels. As stated in the previous measurements post, one block is a meter tall, and a pixel is 5% of a block, or 1/20th of one. Let's take a look at an example:

Lizzie is 10'1, or about 307cm tall. So that's three blocks and one-and-a-half pixels tall. How's that gonna be written?

We write it as 31.5, or "3-subscript-1.5". The block number is always the first number, and the pixel number is second, written in a subscript format, rounding to half a pixel (intervals of 0.5).

We say it as "three one-and-a-half". In settings in which height usually resides within one block range (such as between one and two blocks), such as tight-knit communities of similar race individuals, the block may be cut off entirely. However, in the case of the rulers, it's good to add the block to the number out of formality.

[myprivatelibrary]

I finally make it to the ladder. I stumble forward and grab one of the rungs. I'm just so weak. How am I going to climb a 10-foot ladder? Ten-foot ladder. I think in imperial units. That's a clue. I'm probably an American. Or English. Or maybe Canadian. Canadians use feet and inches for short distances. I ask myself: How far is it from L.A. to New York? My gut answer: 3,000 miles. A Canadian would have used kilometers. So I'm English or American. Or I'm from Liberia. I know Liberia uses imperial units but I don't know my own name. That's irritating. -Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, p. 12-13

[dat-physics-gal]

A barn-light-eon is about a liter.

I don’t know what to do with that information.

1 barn * 1 eon * 1 speed of light = 0.94 liters

**(barn being a tiny cross sectional area, and an eon is a billion years)

[anonymousqueenofrandom]

Apparently we have a new unit of measurement.

Canadian Geese.

I have so many questions!

[word-for-today]

Word for today: Bubnoff Unit

A unit used by geologists to describe the speed of erosion; one Bubnoff equals one cubic meter of earth moving one meter per million years, or one micrometer per year.

[supertrainstationh]

Working form scratch doing elaborate town-building from using absolutely nothing but GIMP and satellite photos, and insisting that every single building, road and sidewalk be true to scale on the map, has gotten me more comfortable with the use of meters as a unit of length than any other experience in my life.

[victusinveritas]

At only 4' 8" tall, Simone Biles' jump clears more than 7 feet 4 inches of air (1 Shaq plus a bit). Or, in library terms, she could jump over roughly 65 James Patterson books.

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

[futurebird]

Stop using "the bomb at Hiroshima" as a unit of measure for the love of all that is decent.

Can pop science writers, documentarians, and science show makers PLEASE stop using "the bomb at Hiroshima" as a unit of measure?

It's just unsettling and at worst sounds like the worst kind of jingoism (if the show is US made), at best tone deaf.

Use an atomic test, or Mt. St. Helen or Tunguska, or "tons of TNT" -- just anything else will do.

The worst is when it's treated like a plural noun. "200 Hiroshimas!" If could never hear that again it would be awesome.

[gameyface46]

this is important because.

also don’t take the descriptions too seriously. just pick your favorite regardless if you have only regular feelings for it.

[semantic-alchemy]

one BTU per second is not quite equal to sqrt(2) horsepower

[enuode-au]

Units of Measurement [1]

LENGTH, TIME, TEMPERATURE

Length

Pixel [px] - Smallest Unit (0.0625m, 0.21ft/2.46in)

Block [bl] - 16 pixels (1m, 3.28ft)

Chunk [ch] - 16 blocks (16m, 52.49ft)

World [ow] - 16 chunks (256m, 839.89ft, 0.16mi)

Border [bo] - 16 worlds (4096m, 13438.32ft, 2.5mi)

EXAMPLE:

Earth has a circumference of 40,075,000 meters (aka blocks).

This means that it has a circumference of 2,504,687.5 chunks, 156,542.97 worlds, and 9,783.94 borders.

NOTES:

There's no inches, centimeters, miles, whatever.

No one knows why the abbreviation for "world" is [ow] and not [wo]. In reality, it stands for Old World.

No one knows where the term "border" came from. In reality, it came from the existence of world borders, and how borders can have extra space beyond them.

Time

Tick [ti] - Smallest Unit

Second [sec] - 20 ticks

Minute [min] - 1,200 ticks

IGD [igd] - 24,000 ticks, 20 minutes

Hour [hr] - 60 minutes

Day [dy] - 24 hours

Month [mon] - Varies

Year [yr] - 365 days (no leap years)

NOTES:

No one knows why IGDs are called what they are. In reality, it stands for In-Game Day.

Temperature

Degrees [deg] - Sole Unit

EXAMPLE:

Biome temperature ranges from -0.7 to 2.0. Multiplying that by 16, and then 16 again, makes the temperatures go from -179.2 to 512.0 degrees. 26deg (~74F) is an average temperature.

The highest temperature on the scale is 512deg (1461F).

The lowest temperature on the scale is -179.2deg (-511.47F).

Freezing is 11deg, and boiling is 74deg. Average human body temperature is 34.5deg.

[pleasetakethis]

“Americans will use any unit of measurement except the metric system!”