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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (42 children)

Height in centimeters? I don't entirely get this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's nothing. Without a unit those are just numbers. A can of coke isn't 12, it's 12floz.

Or so my metric companions don't shit themselves in their panic-induced rage at the sight of imperial units, a coke can isn't 355, it's 355mL.

[–] gentooer 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'll accept the lowercase L (in my East Coast based US education we were taught liters should always be capital L, but that seems to either be flat-out incorrect or have fallen out of fashion), but googling images of the cans shows me no space between the number and the unit.

[–] gentooer 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I hadn't even noticed that you didn't put a space between the number and the unit. Looking it up online, the Bureau international des poids et mesures states that a space is to be used in front of all units, except for °, ' and ". Dropping the space is very common though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's cool to learn the official guidelines; thanks for doing the legwork here!

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