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by physicsguy 652 days ago
Lots of these are country dependent in terms of what is familiar to people. To some degree that matters if your primary communication is not international but domestic.

For e.g. in the UK sqm is very common, particularly when looking at property. On RightMove which is the most popular property website here, for e.g. you can see here that the default is `sq ft` with `sq m` given underneath: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/140100683#/?channel=C...

In terms of things like mixture of units, I appreciate you want to give in one unit but I think the things chosen are a bit strange. I've never seen anyone write '15070 grams', it'd almost always be given as 1.507 kilograms.

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> I think the things chosen are a bit strange. I've never seen anyone write '15070 grams', it'd almost always be given as 1.507 kilograms.

I'm sure it's just a typo, but 15,000 grams is 15 kilograms. So: 15.07 kg.

I don't think they arrived at some of the more extreme examples by accident, but I could only speculate on the intent behind them.

Definitely a typo :D I'd not had my morning coffee!