Post B13zrp0C1do9UrdGwS by krono@toot.berlin
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(DIR) Post #B13V71Pj40mvkwLLPc by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:37:25Z
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oh, I forgot that American Wire Gauge is like that.weird.
(DIR) Post #B13VL9OyA6geaGj6qu by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:40:01Z
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like with temperature scales I can see how some/most units are "bigger is hotter", and I can see the argument for the opposite scaling (like Delisle) where "bigger is colder"but "inverse" units like this are always confusing to me when it's measuring a size.
(DIR) Post #B13VPo0V8Npjg4V9Ky by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:40:51Z
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like, of course bigger numbers are bigger, they're bigger! that's what "bigger" means! there's a clear and direct connection between sizes of numbers and sizes of physical objects, so it's very strange to me that anyone would ever invert this.
(DIR) Post #B13VUveW8VCMpyf5Dk by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:41:48Z
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let alone enough that it ended up as an official standard.but I guess like a lot of things, the "polarity" of the unit doesn't really matter, which is why it could be done this way. it just makes the math a little different, and confuses people who don't know
(DIR) Post #B13VXug0DnJIg9mNii by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:42:03Z
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@matildalove I know, right?
(DIR) Post #B13W2j7LFQ4Fo3GBVY by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T00:47:48Z
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@TerrorBite yeah, but while that's neat trivia: what product is named like this?do they sell flour based on which type of mill ground it? it's just so unexpectedly strange
(DIR) Post #B13Z98zMGuHLe1HGMa by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T01:22:36Z
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I was just reminded that 0, 00, 000, and 0000 are DIFFERENT SIZE WIREShow do you do this in the age of Excel and its legendary type issues?
(DIR) Post #B13ZFPDyouW9jj6Q1Q by foone@digipres.club
2025-12-09T01:23:48Z
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you type 0000AWG into excel it's gonna think it's the 0th day of 2000 in the month of awgust
(DIR) Post #B13zrp0C1do9UrdGwS by krono@toot.berlin
2025-12-09T06:22:01Z
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@foone THANK YOU.It always makes me double take.
(DIR) Post #B140AtNnxh1EaNloqe by krono@toot.berlin
2025-12-09T06:25:27Z
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@foone I just remembered that German DIN is guilty of that. With our paper sizes.A0 is 1sqm. But A1 is 0,5 sqm and so forth.And now that is an ISO standard too.
(DIR) Post #B14wKVjsWEz9UbNzUm by timmy@goblin.camp
2025-12-09T17:16:58Z
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@foone they probably use the 4/0 notation for 0000, and excel gets mad about the divide by zero constantly