OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 days agoYou've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boyslemmy.worldimagemessage-square192linkfedilinkarrow-up1595arrow-down139
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minus-squareqwerty@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 days agoWouldn’t it be 0xA mm = 0x1 cm 0x64 cm = 0x1 m 0x3E8 m = 0x1 km 0x1 km - 0x1 m = 0x3E7 m = 0x3E7/0x3E8 km = 0x0.FFBE76C8B4395810624D… km Edit: nvm I see what you mean, but then we should change the units too, to something like xmm, xcm etc.
minus-squareMyRumIsVodka@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creatorlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoYeah, we’d need to change the names and abbreviations of the units too, to show that “km” isn’t 10³ m but rather 16³m = 0x10³m.
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoThat would still be a decimal system just written in a hexadecimal way.
Wouldn’t it be
Edit: nvm I see what you mean, but then we should change the units too, to something like xmm, xcm etc.
Yeah, we’d need to change the names and abbreviations of the units too, to show that “km” isn’t 10³ m but rather 16³m = 0x10³m.
That would still be a decimal system just written in a hexadecimal way.