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xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units (xkcd.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/xkcd

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Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.

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[–] MooseTheDog 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

If we just used watts life would be so much easier.

[–] sploosh 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The beauty of SI units is you just add or remove zeroes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unless you're converting seconds to minutes, hours, days, years, etc.

Then you get things like watt hours. Or light years.

[–] Hagdos 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Which is why neither are SI-units

[–] sploosh 2 points 4 days ago

The Hives were right, we need to convert to the metric system for time.

[–] Hugin 2 points 4 days ago

Fun trivia. It's called a second because it's the second division of an hour after minutes. You can keep going with thirds and fourths for sub second time.

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