Doug Miller wrote:
In article ,
lid says...
Not for me. I know how much a gallon is and I can relate to using any
quantity. Using x units of water makes no intuitive sense to me.
Only because you haven't troubled yourself to find out what units your
water utility is using.
A "ton" has a uniform definition.
Uh-huh. Right. Which "ton" are you talking about, the one that weighs
2000 pounds, the one that weighs 2240 pounds, or the one that weighs
1000 kilograms?
Since I am in the US the standard commercial definition of a ton is
2,000 lbs. A 1000 kg mass is spelled "tonne" to distinguish it from
others. The "ton" that is derived from Imperial measurement is noted as
a "long ton" to distinguish it from others.
In order for it to make sense to me I would have to determine what the
"unit" might mean.
So how hard is it, exactly, to call the water utility and ask them what
it means?
So how hard is it, exactly, to just state an actual commonly used volume
such as gallons instead of inventing a unit of measure called "unit"
that requires someone to inquire what it might mean?
It just plain silly to reinvent stuff like that especially in the case
of water there is a really common volume measurement that is recognized
by everyone. What if you walked into a bakery and donuts were priced
$5/unit? or you were interested in a new car and found that the fuel
economy was 25 miles/unit?