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[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I did a google search to find out how much i pay for water, the water department where I live bills by the MCF (1,000 cubic feet). The AI Overview told me an MCF was one million cubic feet. It's a unit of measurement. It's not subjective, not an opinion and AI still got it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I just think you need an abbrevations chart.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

Shouldn't it be kcf? Or tcf if you're desperate to avoid standard prefixes?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Everywhere else in the world a big M means million.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, shouldn't that be Kcf, Kilo cubic foot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Kilo is a small k as there wasn't a person named that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I think in this case it's Roman numeral M

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

Americans really using ANYTHING but metric, huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

The only thing that would make more sense would be if the bill was in cuneiform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Except languages like French (mille)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

And Irish -- míle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Yeah, that's an odd one. My city does water by the gallon, which is much more reasonable.