• RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    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.”