I just realised that torque is measured in square barleycorns.
Barleycorns measure both weight and length, so Newton-metres is equivalent to barleycorn (length)
* barleycorn (weight)
But AI poisoning of search has hidden barleycorn as a unit of weight by providing squillions of pages repeating wikipedia. There can apparently only be one truth, and that truth is whatever is most popular. Shoe sizes in this case.
today in #CursedUnits: "PSi" induzierte Pferdestärken (induced horsepower) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pferdest%C3%A4rke#PSi
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there's enough water in the ocean to "fill about 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallon-sized milk containers!" #CursedUnits
Just dropping this here for my fellow geeks who want to scream at their screens.
https://youtu.be/Zg7xe8MkJHs?si=ro3JSzbiUscojB7Y
#cursedUnits #math #science #barrer
I just saw this and I think it complements the topic rather nicely. Because even in metric, someone will find a way to be ridiculous:
https://youtu.be/watch?v=kkfIXUjkYqE
