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minus-squareTreczoks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoEven in the US, science is mostly metric. But most US people are not exactly the scientific kind…
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·15 days agoModern science is, but there’s plenty of old journals from the 80s and earlier that use degrees Rankine and gallons.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-214 days agoFucking BTUs and shit. PSI is another one that seems to be used over the metric/SI alternative in some science-adjacent applications.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-214 days agoUntil you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the “millions scheme” or “thousands scheme,” and if “1 billion” is equal to 1012 or 109 https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html
Even in the US, science is mostly metric. But most US people are not exactly the scientific kind…
Modern science is, but there’s plenty of old journals from the 80s and earlier that use degrees Rankine and gallons.
Fucking BTUs and shit.
PSI is another one that seems to be used over the metric/SI alternative in some science-adjacent applications.
Until you start looking at old stuff and have you figure out if they were working with the “millions scheme” or “thousands scheme,” and if “1 billion” is equal to 1012 or 109
https://www.affixes.org/numberwords.html