Talk:3164: Metric Tip
!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)
- You mean 1m2'26⅔cm. Or very nearly 2yd4cm½"..? 82.132.244.220 12:08, 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)
- Better now? 82.13.184.33 10:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
I'm so glad I live in a metric country now. Helping people fix their terminally naff cars in the 80s in the UK was a trauma - spanner/socket sizes, like 13/16ths and 10/12ths and 1/2 and... so the guy takes one, not right, asks for the next size up. Well, what size is that then? You mean the six and a quarter eighths, yes? 😪 Oh, and don't get me started on American recipes - you'll very quickly discover that US Imperial and British Imperial are not the same (and far too many American recipes measure stuff in "cups"). So, really, Imperial is complicated enough without translating half into metric! 92.184.141.48 14:07, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
I ran some numbers, and assuming 28.349523125 grams in an ounce and 16 ounces in a pound, "7 kg and 9 ounces" would be 7255.145708125 grams, assuming the "9 ounces" doesn't involve rounding, while 16 pounds would be 7257.47792 grams, which differs by only about 2.332211875 grams, or about 0.08 ounce - it's possible the weight is actually 16 pounds exactly, which feels like it makes "7 kg and 9 ounces" even worse than it already is. Conster (talk) 14:13, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
- Don't see why - it's easy to see the equivalence: 7 + 9 = 16. Simples! 82.13.184.33 14:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
