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* Used as a question in Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 cryptic quiz show ''Round Britain Quiz'': "If London buses times Jumbo jets equal Wales, why would Wales times Eiffel Towers offer a field of contest to Phelps and Spitz?" (Length times width equals area, and area times height equals volume, measured in Olympic swimming pools.)
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* Used as a question in Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 cryptic quiz show ''Round Britain Quiz'': "If London buses times Jumbo jets equal Wales, why would Wales times Eiffel Towers offer a field of contest to Phelps and Spitz?" (Length times width equals area, and area times height equals volume, measured in Olympic swimming pools.)
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* Used as a question in Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 cryptic quiz show ''Round Britain Quiz'': "If London buses times Jumbo jets equal Wales, why would Wales times Eiffel Towers offer a field of contest to Phelps and Spitz?" (Length times width equals area, and area times height equals volume, measured in Olympic swimming pools.)
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' spaceships are measured in displacement tonnes of liquid hydrogen (shortened to "tons"), since that's what they usually use for fuel and fuel tanks take up a large portion of a ship's volume, equivalent to 14 cubic meters. On deck plans a ton is represented by two 1.5 by 1.5 meter squares assuming a ceiling 3 meters high.
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** This was changed for the metric system in 2019. The main problem ultimately was that the kilogram, which many other units derive from, was still based on a physical object: a block of platinum-iridium alloy called the International Prototype of the Kilogram. Over the ~150 years it was in use, scientists noticed that copies of it deviated over time, meaning it was not stable and thus, if used to calibrate devices, could result in inaccuracies on the order of micrograms. All base units in the metric system were redefined to use constants, including mass.
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** This was changed for the metric system in 2019. The main problem ultimately was that the kilogram, which many other units derive from, was still based on a physical object: a block of platinum-iridium alloy called the International Prototype of the Kilogram. Over the ~150 years it was in use, scientists noticed that copies of it deviated over time, meaning it was not stable and thus, if used to calibrate devices, could result in inaccuracies on the order of micrograms.micrograms [[note]]While this isn't useful in most everyday measurements, it's ''extremely'' important in the medical field where many treatments, such as those with Type 1 diabetes, have doses in this range[[/note]]. All base units in the metric system were redefined to use constants, including mass.
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** This was changed for the metric system in 2019. The main problem ultimately was that the kilogram, which many other units derive from, was still based on a physical object: a block of platinum-iridium alloy called the International Prototype of the Kilogram. Over the ~150 years it was in use, scientists noticed that copies of it deviated over time, meaning it was not stable and thus, if used to calibrate devices, could result in inaccuracies on the order of micrograms. All base units in the metric system were redefined to use constants, including mass.
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* ''WebVideo/CityNerd'': The subscriber count was always done using the biggest stadium they could fill, up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHbcRQc1E6Q What Makes Lifestyle Centers Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses, Episode 3]] which used Michigan Stadium and was the final video including subscriber count because it was the biggest stadium for which good satellite imagery was available.
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* There are two common ways to describe the heat level of peppers. Experts measure by "Scoville heat units", but in LaymansTerms a given pepper will most often be described by how many times hotter it is than a jalapeno.
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* One measurement for caloric content is to compare foods to the equivalent number (or fractional number, as the case may be) of [=McDonalds=] Big Macs (540 calories in the US, 27% of the average recommended daily caloric intake). Discussed in one ''Webcomic/PvP'' strip, where Skull notes that even monsters do that (one plump Bavarian kid is apparently equivalent to 500 Big Macs).
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* One measurement for caloric content is to compare foods to the equivalent number (or fractional number, as the case may be) of [=McDonalds=] Big Macs (540 calories in the US, 27% of the average recommended daily caloric intake). Discussed in one ''Webcomic/PvP'' ''Webcomic/{{Pvp}}'' strip, where Skull notes that even monsters do that (one plump Bavarian kid is apparently equivalent to 500 Big Macs).
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy1'': Speedrunners measure enemy EXP gains in term of Agamas, an ant creature found in a couple of locations (particularly, there are two side-by-side tiles where Agamas are a forced encounter and therefore make for excellent grinding).
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy1'': ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'': Speedrunners measure enemy EXP gains in term of Agamas, an ant creature found in a couple of locations (particularly, there are two side-by-side tiles where Agamas are a forced encounter and therefore make for excellent grinding).
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* The [[https://4hiroshimas.info 4 Hiroshimas]] website provides a widget that keeps track of how many Hiroshima atomic bombs of heat have been added to our atmosphere as a result of climate change. The number is over 3 billion.
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* The problem with trying this sort of thing is lampshaded in one of the ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' books, explaining that the titular guide (known for its breezy style) gets around the whole problem simply by stating "Space is big. I mean really big. You may thing it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space."
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* The problem with trying this sort of thing is lampshaded in one of the ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' books, explaining that the titular guide (known for its breezy style) gets around the whole problem simply by stating "Space is big. I mean really big. You may thing think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts compared to space."
