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Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 1 week agowhat is typically called a ‘calorie’ is actually 1000 of the real unit.
the real size of a calorie is too small to used effectively, but saying ‘kilocalorie’ is too long or smth idk.
people just need to use kilojoules and fuck Imperial off.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 week ago
Wrong, a Calorie is 1000 calories. Virtually nobody uses calories though so don’t worry about it too much.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
European nutritional labels use them (kcal). Where do you live that they don’t?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 days ago
Exactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 days ago
You misunderstand metric prefixes. kcal is not a separate unit from cal, it is the same unit with a prefix slapped infront
1000 cal = 1k cal = 1 kcal