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by llm_trw 750 days ago
Now if we could only agree if we should use soccer or handegg field sizes.
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Handegg, because there’s an actual standard size for them.

Which is a worse decision for a sport but makes them better for measurement.

Soccer’s trying to make their sport worse by standardizing, but they’re not there yet.

It will be more appealing to nerds when they could say "transition frequency of the caesium 133 atom"
The number of atomic transitions a cesium 133 atom makes when fired across a football field at the speed of sound.
... in dry air at STP.
Which handegg field size though? There is not just one standard. I think we should use the Canadian size, since they created it.