On August 4, 2020 1:24:18 PM MDT, Florian Obser <flor...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>Because of reasons I recently had to carry a lot of garbage around for
>the municipality to pick up. They would only pickup 2 cubic meters in
>one sitting so I had to check how much I had. Turned out to be 0.9 m^3.
>
>Of course inquisitive minds wanted to know how much that is in
>buttloads, to my great dismay units(1) did not know!
>
>So I had to do it by hand like some savage and of course I got the
>conversion wrong hence the following diff:
>
>You have: 0.9 m3
>You want: buttloads
>       * 0.53207987
>       / 1.8794171
>
>About half a buttload, good to know.
>
>Extensive research on the subject[1] found definitions for the
>imperial buttload as well as the related metric assload. Curiously the
>assload is a measurement of mass while the buttload is a measurement
>of volume.
>
>Comments, OKs?
>
>diff --git units.lib units.lib
>index 0f811786bf3..df792a0a917 100644
>--- units.lib
>+++ units.lib
>@@ -452,6 +452,7 @@ asb                        apostilb
> are                   1e+2 m2
> arpentcan             27.52 mi
> arpentlin             191.835 ft
>+assload                       50 kg
> astronomicalunit      AU
> atmosphere            1.01325e+5 nt/m2
> atm                   atmosphere
>@@ -477,6 +478,8 @@ bolt                       40 yd
> bottommeasure         1|40 in
> Bq                    becquerel
> britishthermalunit    1.05506e+3 joule fuzz
>+butt                  2 hogsheads
>+buttload              6 seams
> btu                   britishthermalunit
> refrigeration         12000 btu/ton-hour
> buck                  dollar
>
>1) I tossed it into google and arrived at
>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/buttload
>as well as
>https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/imports/fileManager/donkey%20fact%20sheet.pdf
>
>-- 
>I'm not entirely sure you are real.

BaaaĆ hahahahahahaha!!!!!
-- 
Tracey Emery

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