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Wait, what? ounce can be volume or weight? So you could give the density of a material in oz/oz? Imperial units are really weird... --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC) | Wait, what? ounce can be volume or weight? So you could give the density of a material in oz/oz? Imperial units are really weird... --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC) | ||
:That would be highly nonstandard. Density is usually given in pennyweight/cubic barleycorn. [[Special:Contributions/209.188.63.33|209.188.63.33]] 08:52, 6 November 2025 (UTC) | :That would be highly nonstandard. Density is usually given in pennyweight/cubic barleycorn. [[Special:Contributions/209.188.63.33|209.188.63.33]] 08:52, 6 November 2025 (UTC) | ||
| β | :Not just that - it can be an areal density or a thickness, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce#Other_uses [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 10:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC) | + | :Not just that - it can be an areal density or a thickness, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce#Other_uses Strictly speaking, though, the imperial measure of volume is not an 'ounce', but a 'fluid ounce' - it's just that Americans have mangled the two together. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 10:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC) |
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!tsrif --DollarStoreBa'alConverse 21:08, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
- If you like to have fun with first comments, the place to do it is The Daily WTF comment pages. https://thedailywtf.com. Barmar (talk) 21:25, 5 November 2025 (UTC)
Would have helped avoid the Mars Climate Orbiter [1] feature. SubtrEM (talk) 07:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
I am switching from metric to imperial: I am 1m34.5" --Lupo (talk) 08:18, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
Wait, what? ounce can be volume or weight? So you could give the density of a material in oz/oz? Imperial units are really weird... --Lupo (talk) 08:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- That would be highly nonstandard. Density is usually given in pennyweight/cubic barleycorn. 209.188.63.33 08:52, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Not just that - it can be an areal density or a thickness, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce#Other_uses Strictly speaking, though, the imperial measure of volume is not an 'ounce', but a 'fluid ounce' - it's just that Americans have mangled the two together. 82.13.184.33 10:21, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
