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| | number = 2526 | | | number = 2526 |
| | date = October 8, 2021 | | | date = October 8, 2021 |
− | | title = TSP vs TBSP | + | | title = Tsp vs Tbsp |
| | image = tsp_vs_tbsp.png | | | image = tsp_vs_tbsp.png |
| | titletext = It's like one teraspoon / when all you need is a kilonife | | | titletext = It's like one teraspoon / when all you need is a kilonife |
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| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | This is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a Cooking Tip. | + | {{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
| + | This comic plays a joke on the common liquid measurements of {{w|teaspoon}}s (tsp) and {{w|tablespoon}}s (tbsp), which are commonly confused. It also plays a joke on metric measurements (which use powers of 10) versus computer measurements (which use powers of 2), which also cause confusion. |
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− | This comic plays a joke on the common liquid measurements of {{w|teaspoon}}s (tsp) and {{w|tablespoon}}s (tbsp), which are commonly confused. In the US, a teaspoon is defined as 4.9 ml (0.18 imp fl oz; 0.17 US fl oz) while a tablespoon is defined as 14.8 ml (0.50 US fl oz; 3 tsp).
| + | ==Transcript== |
| + | {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
| + | Cooking tips: tsp vs tbsp. |
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− | It also plays a joke on metric prefixes (based on powers of 10) versus binary prefixes (based on powers of 2), which are also a common source of confusion (see also [[394: Kilobyte]]). In the International System of Units (SI), T (for ''tera-'') signifies a multiplier of 10<sup>12</sup> (that is, 1 000 000 000 000), while Ti (''tebi-'', for ''terabinary''), and not Tb, is an ISO standard binary prefix meaning 2<sup>40</sup> (that is, 1024<sup>4</sup> = 1 099 511 627 776).
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− | | + | <big>Tsp</big> |
− | If "spoon" is understood as US teaspoon, then one teraspoon will be 4 928 922 cubic meters (1.302 billion US gallons or 3996 acre-feet) and a binary teraspoon will be 5 419 407 cubic meters (1.432 B gal or 4394 acre-ft). If the US tablespoon is taken as base unit, a teraspoon will be 14 786 765 cubic meters and a binary teraspoon 16 258 220 cubic meters – roughly equivalent to six thousand Olympic-size swimming pools or slightly more than six times the volume of the Pyramid of Giza. All these units have fairly limited uses in cooking.{{Citation needed}}
| + | Teraspoon |
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− | The title text is a play on a lyric from the Alanis Morissette song "{{w|Ironic (song)|Ironic}}": "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife." Randall changes the line to "teraspoon" and "kilonife". The "kilonife" comes from ''knife'' being interpreted as "nife" with a ''k'' prefix – ''k'' being the SI symbol for ''kilo-'' –, in a similar vein as taking ''tsp'' for "teraspoon". "Nife" is a geophysical name for Earth's core, thought to be composed of nickel and iron, and hence the word comes from the chemical symbols Ni (nickel) and Fe (iron).
| + | (10<sup>12</sup>) spoons |
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− | ==Transcript==
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− | :Cooking tips: tsp vs tbsp
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− | :[left column:]
| + | <big>Tbsp</big> |
− | :<big>Tsp</big>
| + | Binary tsp |
− | :Teraspoon
| + | 1,099,511,627,776 |
− | :1,000,000,000,000
| + | (1024<sup>4</sup>) spoons |
− | :(10<sup>12</sup>) spoons
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− | :[right column:]
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− | :<big>Tbsp</big>
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− | :Binary tsp
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− | :1,099,511,627,776
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− | :(1024<sup>4</sup>) spoons
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| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
− | [[Category:Computers]] | + | [[Category:Programming]] |
| [[Category:Tips]] | | [[Category:Tips]] |
− | [[Category:Binary]]
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− | [[Category:Food]]
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