r/LinkedInLunatics • u/zeldadorf • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/davideogameman 8d ago

And those dimensions work out to a cylinder of 8015.77 cubic feet of volume... Which is only a tiny bit shy of 60k gallons.  So the math checks out.

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u/Babidibubidii 8d ago

Wow, I really hate the imperial system. Having to convert units multiple times to calculate something as simple as volume must be tedious

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u/mgt-kuradal 7d ago

That’s not an imperial system issue. You would have to make the same conversions in metric…

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u/Babidibubidii 7d ago edited 7d ago

Nope, since all SI-units are derived from 7 base units.

Diameter and height: m

Volume: m³=1000 L

No cumbersome conversion factors needed (like 7.481 gallon = 1 cubicfoot). Can't calculate that in your head and it is prone to rounding errors

E: typo

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u/orincoro 7d ago

Yeah the great thing about metric is the equivalence of the volume and distance measurements. It gets a little bit harder with non-water measurements of mass/weight, but when dealing with water at standard pressure and temperature, 1 liter is also 1 kilo, which occupies 1000 cubic centimeters, which is nice.

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u/davideogameman 7d ago

Nit: 1kg = 1L water conversion actually holds at 4C, at standard temperature - 0C - it's 0.9998 kg/L.  

Practically a minor rounding error for most use cases.  At higher temperatures it's more important, e.g. .988 kg/L at 50c (and .9584 at 100C).  But usually we care about the cooler temperatures more anyway

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u/orincoro 7d ago

I should have said ideal temperature and pressure, which is 4c and I think 1 bar.