I live in a country where these measurements aren't used, so without any background knowledge I interpreted the comma as "and" at first. Looking at the picture, I'm pretty sure it's meant to be "or" instead, in which case they should have used a slash instead of a comma imo.

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here’s a handy guide to SE:

1 liter = 10 deciliter

1 deciliter = 10 centiliter

1 centiliter = 10 milliliter

[–] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Base 10 vs base 2

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Metric is better by 1000.

[–] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

One kilo-better

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Found the vegan!

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I also use metric. I eat whale. Last time I checked, a 300g whale burger isn't vegan, gun monkey!

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

More a case of like vegans metric users will always announce themselves.

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You sicko! Are you a whale hunter or just a whale enjoyer? What does it taste like? I’m guessing sea pork.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unless it’s butane. Butane is lighter fluid.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Butane's a bastard gas

[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But most actual cups are 200ml, whereas a pint is 470ml. So if you use a real cup as a measuring tool you are short on the pint.

[–] B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A cup is 236 ml. I was always taught 240 ml but google converts to 236.

[–] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for proving how stupid of a measurement a "cup" is

[–] TaTTe@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm also confused by this 473 ml pint, is that some American thing? I always thought pints were 568 ml... as in pint of beer.

[–] azi@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imperial (used in the British Empire) vs US customary. The imperial fluid gallon (4.54609 L exactly) was never historically defined in terms of another unit while the US fluid gallon was defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785411784 L exactly). A pint is defined as 1/16 of a gallon in each system, but they can't agree on how many ounces are in a pint (16 for US, 20 for imperial). Note that there are also imperial and US customary dry gallons and thus imperial and US customary dry pints...

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

That adds a hilarious new dimension to how shitty the Imperial system is because I had no idea that different countries would just define their own versions of the measurements.

[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I can actually feel my brain cells dying

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is very confusing. I assumed at first that a gallon was 4 quarts + 8 pints + 16 cups, a weird way to write 8 quarts.... Because a quart in my interpretation is 2 pints + 4 cups = 8 cups. I mean the diagram does show the gallon containing all of them.