I’m tired of guessing which country the author is from when they use cup measurement and how densely they put flour in it.

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    4 days ago

    Density of whole milk according to first google answer is 1,034g/cm^3.

    It’s been a while, but would that make it 438,68 ml?

    Edit: But I totally agree with your statement. SI/ metric units is superior in every way with how easy it is to convert between them. At university in Norway I had American textbooks in all but one of my chemistry classes and all used SI/metric and proper names for the elements

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      The US isn’t as entirely devoid of metric as a lot of people get the impression. We all learn it in school and are perfectly familiar with it, we just never made the switch for everyday units, so a lot of people lack the intuition around what the values mean. I can’t tell you what 25c feels like without thinking about it for a minute.

      I’m curious though, does anyone not use the proper names for the elements?

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        The texts books at least used natrium and kalium for the most part as far as I remember.

        Are lot of the web pages did not. But this was 2004-2010.