Brutkey

Piia Bartos
@piiabartos@mastodontti.fi

"Please note that ‘dL’ (decilitres) is not an SI unit, and should not be used, use mL or L instead."

This sent me to a rabbit hole where I learned that litre itself is not an SI unit. So therefore mL or L should also not be used. 😅 Maybe we should go for the cubic centimeters?

#AcademicChatter #writing #scientificWriting #volume #units

Matinoitunut Rutkustaja
@matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi

@piiabartos@mastodontti.fi

I drunk 200 cm³ of water

Auringon sikiö
@Auringon_sikio@mementomori.social

@matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi @piiabartos@mastodontti.fi A related observation: my car’s fuel consumption is about 6,5 × 10⁻⁸ m².

Tor Lillqvist
@tml@mementomori.social

@Auringon_sikio@mementomori.social @matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi @piiabartos@mastodontti.fi Fun fact: That is the cross-section of a string of fuel consumed laid out along the car's path when you drive it using its average fuel consumption.

Markus Peuhkuri
@puhuri@mastodon.social

And my electric car consumption is about 650 N.
@Auringon_sikio@mementomori.social @matt_jarvin@eliitin-some.fi @piiabartos@mastodontti.fi