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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down1·7 days agoWhat, you don’t use kilopounds?
minus-squareHobbitFoot @thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoIt goes by kip in more professional settings, but yes.
minus-squareTunaLobster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoYep. Lots of kip feet numbers in engineering. Moments are everywhere and they usually dominate.
minus-squareFuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 days agoK is common short hand for a thousand.
minus-squaremajiks@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoYes, but generally with SI units (and bytes).
minus-squareZaktor@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoAnd currency, and people, and just things in general.
minus-squarepHr34kY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down3·7 days agoThe figure obviously started as 500kg, and then the Americans got to it.
minus-squareAmon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoAmericans know what kilo means?!?!
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 days agoHalf a ton, if you really want to stick to imperial… What next? Centigallons? Megafurlongs?
minus-squareGlytch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoMy car gets 30 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!
minus-squarejohn89@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·7 days agoYeah, it’s really shitty writing by someone who probably got the job for favors. Just say 1,000…
minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoIt’s not 1000 anything though, other than pounds. Which nobody uses really
K-pound? Really?
What, you don’t use kilopounds?
It goes by kip in more professional settings, but yes.
Yep. Lots of kip feet numbers in engineering. Moments are everywhere and they usually dominate.
K is common short hand for a thousand.
Yes, but generally with SI units (and bytes).
And currency, and people, and just things in general.
Is it 1000 or 1024 pounds?
Depends on gravity
1000
The figure obviously started as 500kg, and then the Americans got to it.
Americans know what kilo means?!?!
Half a ton, if you really want to stick to imperial…
What next? Centigallons? Megafurlongs?
My car gets 30 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it!
Yeah, it’s really shitty writing by someone who probably got the job for favors.
Just say 1,000…
It’s not 1000 anything though, other than pounds. Which nobody uses really