Yeah but Americans are stupid and thought a 1/3lb burger was smaller than a 1/4lb burger. I fully expect they’d think 5Ah is smaller than 1000mAh.
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RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I love how we still needlessly use so many zeroes instead of just calling it Ah. Phones with 5000 mAh batteries. Or you know, we could just cal it 5Ah battery. Chinese are even further obsessed with this just adding zeroes because the more zeroes the better!
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 10 hours ago
I’ve even seen people say “5k mAh”
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve wondered in the past why, for example, 1000 kilometers are still referred to as kilometers.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Hehe, nice catch. Technically, under SI standard we could call that 1 megameters… It’s mostly we rarely address distances beyond 1000 kilometers in day to day life so kilometers still make some sense. Where under Imperial units, there isn’t any unit above mile. For batteries, we don’t really use anything less in phones anymore, only smartwatches and earbuds use capacities under 1000.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
The moon is roughly 385 megameters away, or 0.4 gigameters!
Gurfaild@feddit.org 23 hours ago
To avoid confusion, just use mebimeters (1 Mim = 2^20 m)
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I only use parsecs to measure distance
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
Yes, millimeters, or any other milli measurement (EG milliamps) starts with a lower case.
Kilo and up is capitalised.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
People don’t use megameters enough that you can rely on them knowing what it is nor have an intuition for it even if they technically know.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They should.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Even better: we could use Wh instead, to not constantly correct for voltage!
Venator@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
But you get more zeros with Ah 😂