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0.1 of a cm
 Also known as a millimeter.

We have words you know.

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For the yanks, that’s 1/60000th of a washing machine

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But I need to know the length in first downs. Can you do the conversation?

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What the crap kind of washing machine do you use that’s 20 storeys tall?

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2 points

Dryer*

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.001m

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It’s easier to represent as 0.000001 km, imo.

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8 points

I really think 0.000000001 Mm is clearer.

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71 points

If only there were a more convenient way to express 0.1cm.

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2.0712373074578E-7 Leagues I find the most convenient and before you ask of course I am talking in Persian miles.

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Unsolicited dick pics are generally frowned upon


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It’s approximately 0.00000497 Furlong

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It’s about 1/76th the height of a Big Mac from McDonald’s.

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American or European?

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Big Macs are a measure of weight not distance. Though you can also use them as a measure of force as long as you assume they are in 1G.

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It’s about one thirty-oneth attoparsec.

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If I learned something from star wars is that parsec are a unit of time, so get out if here!

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8 points

How about 6.684587e-15 Astronomical Units?

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8 points

200000 beard-seconds tall.

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Why wouldn’t they just say a millimeter? .1cm is something a non metric user would say.

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I think you’ve answered your own question!

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It’s common for scientists to prefer a decimal point in their measurements because they are inherently limited precision, but “1 mm” leaves some ambiguity as to whether you meant 1.0 mm or 0.1 cm. It’s a matter of significant digits, since leading zeros are ignored.

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2 points

It is literally prefized with “roughly”.

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As an imperialist, i would have opted for 1/256"

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Tiny mushrooms spook me because all I can think of is them growing inside my lungs and on my body hooking me into the network

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Eat a bag of psilocybin mushrooms and think about why being plugged into the mushroom consciousness scares you


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9 points

That
 Sounds like an awful thing to do

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10 points

Both cute and deadly probably.

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But you’d probably have to pick quite a few to get poisoned, if it even is poisonous :)

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