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@ozofriendly
I don't think that "league" has ever been a particularly precise unit. I was in two minds as I wrote it as to whether to add "Circa" - LOL
#units #metrology

How do people that use imperial units enter measurements in software apps? Assume you have a length that's 3 inches and 5/16. How do you enter that value in an app that expects a normal number? Do you use a calculator to first divide 5/16 to get 0,3125 and then enter 3.3125? Or do you have some assistive technologies that understand fractions? Or do you just enter "3 5/16" and hope the app can parse it?

#imperial #units

@jttracey1
https://mastodon.social/@xkcdbot@indieweb.social/115499076109673296
#units #metrology

House prices are accelerating again and the housing crisis is back on

When the Reserve Bank announces on Melbourne Cup Day that interest rates are staying where they are because…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #abcpricedout #AffordableHousing #AU #Australia #houses #Housing #HousingCrisis #Immigration #interestrate #internationalstudents #mortgage #RBA #units
https://www.newsbeep.com/224940/

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics Core

Achieving quantum advantage in a search for a violations of the Goldbach conjecture, with driven atoms in tailored potentials

Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Andrea Trombettoni, Giuseppe Mussardo, Maxim Olshanii
SciPost Phys. Core 8, 074 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.8.4.074

#LeibnizUniversitätHannover #TUDarmstadt #SISSA #UNITS #INFNTrieste #MassachusettsBoston
#BMWi

Sleeping next to big dogs is adding surround sound and sound effects to your dreams. :chickendance:

#Units #Dogs

The Best CSS Unit Might Be a Combination, by @mia (@OddBird):

https://www.oddbird.net/2025/09/23/type-units/

#css #units #functions

Government backs three‑day hospital or birthing unit stay for new mothers

The Ministry of Health had been told to work with Health New Zealand on preparing for the change.…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #after #allow #babies #backing #backs #bill #birthing #born #days #for #Government #hospital #least #members #mothers #new #NewZealand #NZ #or #stay #that #their #three #threeday #unit #units #will
https://www.newsbeep.com/177416/

Another funny contribution by #SMBC which adds yet another angle to the #imperialunits situation: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/measurement

#America-vecotrized #units #ftw 🤣

#USA

CSS có tới 42 đơn vị đo lường khác nhau! 🤯 Từ các đơn vị phổ biến như px, em, rem, % đến các đơn vị mới hơn như vw, vh, lch, oklch... Thật đa dạng phải không?

#CSS #WebDev #Frontend #Programming #Development #Coding #Units #WebDesign #ThiếtKếWeb #LậpTrình #PhátTriểnWeb #CôngNghệ

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1o12gps/css_has_42_units/

@RnDanger
Exactly! The huge range in definitions of a 'league' by different cultures at different times is presumably why people stopped using it.
In any case, its use in the title of the film was completely nonsensical. :-)
cf. "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" - not quite as ludicrous at only 3x Challenger Deep. 😬

#units #metrology #measurement #FactCheckAShowOrFilm
#HashTagGames

@bagder We could start using systematic binary prefixes, akin to systematic element names, for those that don’t already have an officially assigned name?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name

So 2^128 bytes
= 2^8 x 2^120 bytes
= 256 x 1024^12 bytes
= 256 unbi-bibytes (12 = un bi)

Seems quite compact actually.

And could also extend to systematic SI prefixes for power-of-1000 magnitude numbers?

#units #siprefix