A tonne is 1000kg, any other measurement sounding like it is mental illness
Your thinking of Megatron, a megagramme is an x-ray photograph of breast tissue, in order to screen for breast cancer.
I’m just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).
Bring back the Grave.
For example then a joule could be G m2 s-2, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)
You’d think so, but unfortunately no: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit
Edit: For example a 1 Joule is kg m2 s-2
Victim blaming!
Like most things, this is Britain’s fault.
And Reagan, don’t forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!
I bet Reagan made “soccer”, the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.
The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.
That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.
Isn’t it also because they would use the same units but undercut the American buyers or something? Same why a pint isn’t a pint?
I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I’d argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).
My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn’t want to switch to metric because it’s “European” and they’re proud Americans, is BTU.
Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha
Don’t be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that’s nightmare fuel
You want long tons which are 1.016 ton.
no, we want metric tons - or tonnes
a long ton is also not 1000kg; it’s 2240lb… a metric ton is 2204.6lb
Bro they don’t teach that in Meth class
