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minus-squareRichardDegenne@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 天前Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much. Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176. And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
minus-squareSCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 天前3 horsepowers at the curb, 4 horsepowers at the crank
How much is a kilohorse
Imperial doesn’t use multiplicative prefixes very much.
Instead, they would invent a new random unit, the skyscraper, which is equal to a random number of horses, like 176.
And then everyone goes “Yeah, a skyscraper is 176 horses, everyone knows that.”
That is 1,000 horses, obviously.
Beat me to it
3 horsepowers at the curb, 4 horsepowers at the crank