Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 18, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

tonyarkles wrote: post #71

jdietrich wrote: post #65

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It's only a problem in the US. The Commonwealth ton is only 1.6% larger than the tonne, so the distinction is usually insignificant. Most of the world has no knowledge of either the short or long ton. Likewise, confusion between "mills" (millimetres) and "mils" (thousandths of an inch) are an exclusively American problem. The American adherence to customary units is a constant annoyance for electronics engineers - an…

Sadly also a Canadian problem. We're nominally a metric country, but we're very much a hybrid. When we went to metric, many things still stayed in customary units, but with metric names. I'll likely never ask someone to go get me 454g of sugar from the grocery store, it'll be a pound. Your 2x4 is going to be 8 feet long. You're going to use 1/2" bolts. My generation does consistently use litres and celsius though!

Post by khedoros » Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 4:09 AM UTC

imaginenore wrote: post #87

khedoros wrote: post #83

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Why not? It shows the relationship between itself and other metric units better than "tonne" does. It would start sounding natural if people started using it.

Because "mega" is ambiguous. It can mean different things.