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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What units should we use for the formula?

I'm going with weeks for age, teaspoons for size, acres for area, and leagues for depth.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago

Some people will do anything except use SI units

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The units don't really matter as long as you're okay with your number of kids coming out with units of square root time over length(?)