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minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·27 days agoWe have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm. You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoHow much is a kilohorse
minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9·27 days agoImperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much. Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176. And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
minus-squareTownhouseGloryHole@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·27 days agoThat is 1,000 horses, obviously.
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days ago3 horsepowers at the curb, 4 horsepowers at the crank
We have also units in metric, except it’s always the same ones. Horse is around 2m and a small banana is 15cm, a human foot in around 30cm.
You can measure the parts of your body to get to the same point reference pretty fast and it’s very relatable when you live in a non-imperial country.
How much is a kilohorse
Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much.
Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.
And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
That is 1,000 horses, obviously.
Beat me to it
3 horsepowers at the curb, 4 horsepowers at the crank