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[Jabberwocky]

picometers I prefer to measure it in

[stonemonkey]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

[darwin dali]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

Both are metric, so doesn't matter.

[stonemonkey]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

Both are metric, so doesn't matter.

Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.

[darwin dali]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

Both are metric, so doesn't matter.

Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

Not since 1964:

A litre is defined as a special name for a cubic decimetre (1 L ≡ 1 dm3). Hence 1 L ≡ 0.001 m3 ≡ 1000 cm3, and 1000 L ≡ 1 m3 (exactly).

From 1901 to 1964, the litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 °C and 760 millimetres of mercury pressure. During this time, a litre was about 1.000028 dm3. In 1964 this definition was abandoned in favour of the current one.

[stonemonkey]

yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.

[darwin dali]

yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.

Don't blame your connection - you were 46 years late

[stonemonkey]

yep, just looked that up and edited my post but connection seems slow today and you beat my edit.

Don't blame your connection - you were 46 years late

LOL. morse code would've been faster.

[What's Burning?]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

Both are metric, so doesn't matter.

Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.

A liter, like a gallon is a fluid measurement, so the "weight" is really dependent on the type of fluid, the liter just a measure of mass, not density.

[stonemonkey]

Yeah, but do you use litres or cc's for engine dispacement?

Both are metric, so doesn't matter.

Not entirely, although it's used in the metric system the litre is a (very) slightly larger volume than 1000cc's.

EDIT: sorry, they changed it in 1964 and nobody told me. So a litre of water no longer weighs 1kg.

A liter, like a gallon is a fluid measurement, so the "weight" is really dependent on the type of fluid, the liter just a measure of mass, not density.

Yep, but up until 1964 the volume was based on how much space 1kg of water filled at 4C and 1 atmosphere pressure. Litre/liter is not a measure of mass though.

[darwin dali]

Volume lads, it's volume.

[What's Burning?]

Volume lads, it's volume.

Mine goes to 11.

[myownalias]

Volume lads, it's volume.

Mine goes to 11.

Why not just make 10 louder?

[What's Burning?]

Volume lads, it's volume.

Mine goes to 11.

Why not just make 10 louder?

... but this one goes to 11

[myownalias]

Volume lads, it's volume.

Mine goes to 11.

Why not just make 10 louder?

... but this one goes to 11

Now I want to go watch "This is Spinal Tap"

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