this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
515 points (98.3% liked)
interestingasfuck
1330 readers
1 users here now
Please go to !interestingshare@lemmy.zip
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
27,000 and 1.5
Why do 27 and 000 belong closer together than 1 and 5? Both numbers are incomplete when leaving out a component.
Agreed, it's completely arbitrary.
It's two pretty large groups but you've got India and China, so population wise it's pretty clear. Let's make a deal: we (Europe) switch to the dot as decimal separator if the US switches to metric.
I kinda like laughing at the US for measuring things in AR15s though.
Yes please