very cool units. what would be units of time? and charge/current?

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cup

#SMBC #Physics #Measurement #UnitsOfMeasurement

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #149: A buttload of wine. Also, Happy New Year!
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#buttload #butt #wine #alcohol #booze #cask #history #unitsofmeasurement #butwhytho #words #ass #bottomsup #trivia #funfact #stupid #strangebuttrue #butwhytho #bizarre #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

#JSR385 Units of Measurement 2.0 has posted Maintenance Release 2:
https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/mrel/jsr385/index2.html #JCP #JSRUpdates #JSR385 #UnitsofMeasurement #Java

I will #AlsoAlsoAdd...

#TheFormerUnitedKingdom has its own #System of #Measurements including (but not limited to):

• #DoubleDeckerBuses (Height)
• #OlympicSwimmingPools / #FootballPitches (Length)
• #Wales / #Belgium (Geographic Landmass / Area)
• #Heffalumps (Weight)

These are #NonStandard #UnitsOfMeasurement; we can #BlameBrexit if you #Like...

#IT won't #AffectTheOutcome...

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https://vmst.io/@PSiReN/110566782132271097

The Java Community Process(SM) Program - communityprocess - maintenance review 2 of #JSR385 #JCP #Java #UnitsofMeasurement https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr385/index2.html

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I will #AlsoAlsoAdd...

#TheFormerUnitedKingdom has its own #System of #Measurements including (but not limited to):

• #DoubleDeckerBuses (Height)
• #OlympicSwimmingPools / #FootballPitches (Length)
• #Wales / #Belgium (Geographic Landmass / Area)
• #Heffalumps (Weight)

These are #NonStandard #UnitsOfMeasurement; we can #BlameBrexit if you #Like...

#IT won't #AffectTheOutcome...

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@coprolite9000 well given each country defines it's own unit of alcohol, perhaps we could all choose out own name so that there's less confusion.
The French van have the Cliquot but I think the Danish should be a Jacobsen (after the founder of #Carlsberg who was also a noted philanthropist and gave the world stabilised #yeast to make consistent #Beer),

en genstand = en Jacobsen...

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#DKMastodon

#unitsOfMeasurement #UnitsOfAlcohol

In the 70's, we learned both the Imperial and Metric Systems of Measurement and consequently are unfamiliar with either system.

"The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system"

Metric units have conquered the globe, but in the US and the UK, their presence has become part of a culture war between ‘traditional’ and ‘progressive’ values.

by @jjvincent@twitter.com

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/23507199/us-uk-anti-metric-sentiment-beyond-measure-james-vincent-excerpt

#GoMetric #SellingEnglandByThePound #EU #MatterOfInches #UnitsOfMeasurement

At last! A name for the unit of momentum.

See this post by Kevin Drum:

https://jabberwocking.com/emmy-noether-and-the-conservation-of-momentum/

#science #unitsOfMeasurement #SI #math #maths #Noether #physics