Comment on Finally found where they store all the excess

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• threeonefour@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh they meant CUbic Meter. 1 cubic meter = 1,000 liters. So they should have put 1250 kL or 1,250,000 L

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The correct abbreviation for cubic meters is “m³”. Kiloliters are discouraged, and where I’m from “l” or “𝑙” is preferred to “L”.

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• manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Coming from an astronomy background, I can tell you that abso-fucking-lutely no one is going to use zettameters instead of kiloparsecs. If I tried to use that in a paper or talk people would think I was insane, and then demand I convert it to kPc.

  And they would be right to do so since kPc is an immediately understandable distance (to astronomers). One parsec is roughly the distance between stars. So one kiloparsec tells me something is about 1000 star-distances across. Easy. I have no idea what a zettameter is. I like consistent rules as much as the next guy, but sometimes you have to make accommodations for things that are actually useful instead of the “strictly correct” option that is useful to no one.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s a suggested rule, which Nayuki knows are controversial. And I don’t 100% agree with her either, for example I prefer “𝑙” to “L”.

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  they used sqm as an example of ad hoc abbreviation, i was hoping to see cum, they had one job

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s more common, and as for badly abbreviated cubic units, “cc” (as in motor volume) takes the top spot (and is listed as deprecated, which I think is the lesser problem compared to not being written as cm^3^).

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