My new get-to-know-you question
Dec. 25th, 2017 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI made this up tonight: if you had a unit of measurement named after you, what would it be measuring and how big is it?
From the group I was out with at the time, this could simply be decibels (hah, yeah), or a ratio of music output to words spoken, or a unit of tea consumption per hour.
I finally decided that anything named after me would be measuring delayed gratification, and that the standard measurement for that is probably the marshmallow-hour. Or, to be standards-compliant, the marshmallow-second.
Oneflexagon is about 3e8 marshmallow-seconds, equivalent to delaying the consumption of 10 marshmallows by about a year.
From the group I was out with at the time, this could simply be decibels (hah, yeah), or a ratio of music output to words spoken, or a unit of tea consumption per hour.
I finally decided that anything named after me would be measuring delayed gratification, and that the standard measurement for that is probably the marshmallow-hour. Or, to be standards-compliant, the marshmallow-second.
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flexagon is about 3e8 marshmallow-seconds, equivalent to delaying the consumption of 10 marshmallows by about a year.
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Date: 2017-12-28 03:26 pm (UTC)I have a hard time thinking about what my current unit of measure would be. Things that would have been appropriate in the past are less so, now.