Talk:3164: Metric Tip

!tsrif --DollarStoreBa'al^Converse 21:08, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

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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)

Weirdly enough, the active ingredient in something like medication is given in mg/oz (fluid ounce, presumably). That's just wrong.--Coconut Galaxy (talk) 10:35, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

"...are usually effectively one or other measurement of weight..." The grammar here seems wrong and confusing. 2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:54C4:F71B:724:CBE7 10:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)