Just “x10” with metric. With imperial, it’s usually “how many rods to a hogshead” or short tons and long tons or fathoms vs leagues.
Skelepede
Not only make more sense, it avoid errors. Imperial system don’t even make difference between mass and weight. Some confusion in the imperial system has already cost NASA several space probes. Imperial units are non linear and aleatoric values without any sense, using the measures of bodyparts of an King in the past, obsolete in science, mathematic and architecture. Used in Airlines and nautics, almost by tradition
Who’s skeleton?
*skeletonnes
The SI base unit is actually the kilogram (despite naming), a metric tonne is actually a megagram lol.
Anyhow, if the prefix-less naming matched the base unit, 10 kg would be a “decagram”. As it is, it’s 10,000× the base of the naming system, and theres no prefix on factors of 10 above 1000, so sadly there’s no way to name it neatly.
Edit: actually it looks the like the Greek for 10,000 is “myriad”, so it would be a myrigram. Dope!
I will use all the archaic measurement I want & you can’t stop me.
Hum… You mean “deca”?
no. A skeleton is 1/100 of a ton. A decaton would be 10 tons.
A decakilogram would be 10 kg though. But fuck, that’s quite an unwieldy word.
1/100th of a ton = skele ton
How much is a Skelemeter?
Oh, ok. Now I understood it.
I needed way to long to get the actual point… Geez I need to get my shit together
SI units are fun!
My car needs 7 liters of gas per 100 km.
7 liters / 100 km =
7 dm³ / 100 km =
0.007m³ / 100,000 m =
0.000007 m² =
0.07 mm²The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.
The question what this area represents is left as an exercise to the reader.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ is relevant.
The area of the base of o tube as long as the lenght of travel that would contain the volume of gasoline needed to travel said distance.
Skelepede
So when you’re kind of enthused about something but not, like, really psyched, you can say, “That sounds like a skeli-ton of fun.”
A metric ton would be more accurately called a Megagram.
What Jesse is proposing here is a new prefix of skele to be 10,000 grams.
No no no no!
Skelegram is my startup that sends skeletons to people to their email address or physical address.
I thought it was a new social media platform focused on pictures of skeletons.
I think he’s proposing a skele-ton which is 0.01 tons, (i.e. 10kg), not a skelegram which is 10,000g. A skele-gram in this case would be 0.01g.
Well a metric tonne is based on a prefix, so a prefix to that is a double prefix. Skelemegagram to suit that situation which is the wrong way to do it.
Sure, but the joke is skele-ton
I really want skelemeter to be a word.
It rolls off the tongue.
Skelemeter…
An obsolete 10,000 prefix already exits (“myria-”) but Jesse’s prefix is a bit snappier.
Motion to bring “lakh” to the Westen world.
But a ton is not 1000 kg, that’s a tonne 🤓
ahem… science, bitch
centikilogram? thats double prefix
Centiton, which is very funny.
This is the most in character dialogue I’ve seen in this meme
