• Golden Lox
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    151 month ago

    what is typically called a ‘calorie’ is actually 1000 of the real unit.

    the real size of a calorie is too small to used effectively, but saying ‘kilocalorie’ is too long or smth idk.

    people just need to use kilojoules and fuck Imperial off.

    • JackbyDev
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      -11 month ago

      Wrong, a Calorie is 1000 calories. Virtually nobody uses calories though so don’t worry about it too much.

        • JackbyDev
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          -31 month ago

          Exactly. They use a unit representing 1000 calories. They don’t use calories. In the US we use “Calories” which are 1000 calories. Lowercase c calories are just too small of a unit to be useful and virtually nobody uses them.

          • @Zwiebel@feddit.org
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            27 days ago

            You misunderstand metric prefixes. kcal is not a separate unit from cal, it is the same unit with a prefix slapped infront

            1000 cal = 1k cal = 1 kcal

            The equal sign here is not a unit conversion