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"4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms"
by waldarbeiter 8mo ago
"4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms"
- Perz1val 8mo agoLLMs couldn't've written that!
- ihaveajob 8mo agoI guess you're quoting it because it is EXACTLY four million kilograms?
- NitpickLawyer 8mo agoProbably for our freedom unit loving friends, they have a different ton (because why not).
- throwway120385 8mo agoOur freedom tons are built for our particularly large trucks.
- MisterTea 8mo agoBelieve it or not the Europeans run heavier trucks than Americans. Ours just get to be longer.
- localuser13 8mo agoI also like to take potshots at Americans, but come on. It's unlikely that a newspaper called "the berliner" in a article about Berlin included this line specifically thinking about citizens of a far-away foreign country who don't use metric units that often. Occam's razor says that it's actually one of our noble and enlightened European journalists who made that sloppy remark without realising it.
- __MatrixMan__ 8mo agoThey only reported one significant figure, could be as little as 3500. kg or as much as 4499.99999... kg
- mathieuh 8mo agoMaybe targeted at Americans and using US customary short tons (which is 907 kg)
- tosti 8mo ago4,000 tonnes is almost exactly 4 tonne. Could be 4,0004 tonne.
- badc0ffee 8mo agoThat's not how the comma separator works in English.
- mindslight 8mo agoAs an American, I'm going to need this as a volume, either in terms of Olympic-sized swimming pools or the height of a pile in an [American] football stadium. Maybe I'd accept weight as a quantity of Ford F-150s, but you'd be pushing it.
- nayuki 8mo ago"4k tons" is 4 gigagrams (Gg).