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  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    For everyone from the real world, not fluent in retard units.

    12 inches = 1 foot

    3 feet = 1 yard

    22 yards = 1 chain

    10 chains = 1 furlong

    8 furlongs = 1 mile

    3 miles = 1 league

    And here is my favourite 2 dimensional unit:

    1 furlong x 1 chain = 1 acre

    Edit: bruh.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      11 hours ago

      it’s a pretty interesting science experiment. it was the temperature of a mix of water, ice and ammonium chloride, which forms a eutectic mixture that stabilises itself at the temperature that fahrenheit chose as zero.

      …he didn’t write down the amounts he used though.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

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        10 hours ago

        Another American thing maybe? Always been clockwise for me

        Edit: ah duck me, trig goes the other way round, forgot, everything else is clockwise tho

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          6 hours ago

          Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.

          (I made up Albert Sine. I don’t know that there’s anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he’d go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)

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    0f, you just walked outside of a station in Antarctica

    100f, you walked outside in a city built in the middle of a desert during the daytime

    -40, the temperatures the same in f or c, but you’re not gonna like it regardless