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So I was looking into the history of battery naming conventions. this is imo the absolute best thing about the internet, quickly finding information on very niche topics. I was really excited that somebody actually made a video about the exact weird question I had just asked myself and couldn't find out enough about on wikipedia! I was however quickly disappointed to realize that it's basically just shitty AI slop designed to play the youtube algorithm and generate watch time. at 1:24 the way the sentence is phrased is not only a dead giveaway, it's also detrimental to the understandability of the content, not that there is really any meaningful information being conveyed in this video beyond the immediately obvious. then at 3:01 the battery shown is so totally not an A battery!! that's an ignition dry cell, the precursor to the LR40, the thing is 15 cm tall and can hold 40 fucking amp-hours! just look at those huge fucking screw contacts on the top!!! that's where I realized what was going on. these guys are spreading worthless, misleading falsehoods, poisoning the well of information we call the internet, and at the very least they're parasites, leaching away our time on this earth just so they can make a couple of pennies worth of profit. it breaks my heart ๐Ÿ’”

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[โ€“] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well now I'm curious and don't trust myself to find the correct answer. Why do we have this naming scheme?

[โ€“] poddus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me know if you find anything ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Early editions of the ANSI standard used a letter code to identify the dimensions of the cell. Since at the time there were only carbon-zinc cells, no suffix letters or other notation were required. The letter system was introduced in the 1924 edition of the standard, with letters A through J assigned approximately in order of increasing cell volume, for cells typically manufactured at that time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_nomenclature

[โ€“] poddus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks Buddy! I got so wrapped up in the ai debacle that I didn't look into my question any further ๐Ÿ˜… I was actually initially trying to find out where the German designations of "baby", "lady", "mono", and "mignon" come from. Haven't gotten very far on that end either ๐Ÿค”

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