xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
xkcd #3038: Uncanceled Units
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Uncanceled Units
Edit: Alt Text: Speed limit c arcminutes^2 per steradian.
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If we just used watts life would be so much easier.
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The beauty of SI units is you just add or remove zeroes.
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Unless you're converting seconds to minutes, hours, days, years, etc.
Then you get things like watt hours. Or light years.
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Which is why neither are SI-units
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The Hives were right, we need to convert to the metric system for time.
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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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