But were they C cups?
wait is THAT what "cc's" stands for???
Nah, that's because if you C one, you want to C the other.
Naw 😭😭😭😭
“Cubic centimeters” yes
Henceforth, I shall always refer to cups when discussing my car's fuel. That is all.
Probably locked onto length and ignored the cube. Just say milliliters, it\s 1:1
I used "64 cubic cm to cups" and got 0.27 cups.
And since 64cm3 is also 64ml, they're both equal to about 0.27 cups
Gotta love the metric
It's like... it might make some sense
Woah there commie!
I know this is probably a joke but it's funny how americans call everything they don't like communist
What's that commie? I was busy enjoying muh freedom.
Ahem… OUR freedom comrade
Don't you dare have any different ideas than your neighbors or you'll have your freedom removed!
Pretty sure you mean partner there, wouldn't want anyone thinkin' you're a commie now would ya?
Which is exactly why we can't use it. We don't want the pheasants gaining more power than they already do.
we already know birds aren’t real
But think of how much of a danger they'd be if their CPUs weren't constantly having to do conversions. Those precious milliseconds might be all that stands between us and total annihilation.
Here’s my experience with pheasants: I grew up in a small village and my parents house is located right at the forest meaning I’ve spent like a decade or so running through those woods as a kid. Never saw a single pheasant. Then, years later while visiting my parents one of those fuckers just flies down the road in front of their house. There’s no way that thing was real if you’re asking me.
I for one welcome our new Pheasant overlords.
It's almost like it makes sense and the numbers aren't just random.
I'm an American that's been converted to metric. I took a lot of science in college.
Yeah it's clearly better to use the maximum dilatation of a platypus' anus instead of centimeters... :D
I don’t want to eat anything you’ve baked.
I agree, that sounds risky. Instead, here's some beaver anal secretion flavored ice cream.
B-anil-a?
American cups or Australian cups. US is 236ml and Australian is 250ml
They meant cm³ and mL are 1:1 not mL and cups
Because a cubic centimeter is a milliliter. Ask it to convert ml to c and it would answer with ease.
"Sorry mls and speed of light are not compatible"
Yes they are
Show your work.
Left as an exercise for the reader
First, assume a spherical cow in a vacuum
This guy physics
what the fuck is a spherical cow
How have I not heard of this until now?
*herd 😅
When I first heard (or herd) it, it was spherical chickens in a vacuum.
Anyone have Gary Larson’s phone number? I need to forward him something
I hate when textbooks have that half way through a math proof.
It's whenever the author notices that he desn't understand it either and can't be bothered to make sense of it.
Or they say that the solution is intuitive.
Always on the least intuitive steps of the derivation.
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This cracked me up.
I like your attitude, here's a next level line you can drop the next time you do this to someone.
"Prove otherwise"
I like your attitude, here's a next level line you can drop the next time you do this to someone.
"Prove otherwise"
So you're saying to make the claim without evidence then shift the burden of proof onto the person you're making the claim to?
It's on the list of logical fallacies (https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ -> burden of proof), but it's a fun one!
Light year is a measurement of distance. NEXT!
Dang what is that in miles per gallon
No, the real question is what is that in bananas per year. Because we only use freedom units!
And that's why it's possible to break down you cars gas consumption from l/km to m².
I know it woudlnt change the numbers relative to each other but it would be hilarious for everyone to just switch to using square meters for fuel efficiency overnight and just not even attempt to explain it.
The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogs head and that’s the way I likes it!
But can you give it to me in footcandles?
It should be able to do that conversion as well
Stupid easy to convert metric system!
Speaking of that, what measuring system does "cup" belong to?
The cup is imperial. And being imperial, is not particularly standardized (one of the main reasons for the metic/SI conversion).
It is most commonly used in the US where it equals 8 fluid Oz - roughly 236.5 ml (it is defined as a fraction of a gallon). The US also (unhelpfully) has a "legal" cup used for nutrition labels that sets it at 240 ml (and as a result creates a legal fluid Oz that is also larger at 30 ml). Due to the minimal difference between the two for small volumes (like home cooking), you may see either in practice (the round numbers of ml also make it easier to dual-label even if the US measures are slightly off).
There are a bunch of other "cups" in use worldwide usually either 250 or 200 ml.
TIL I learned that all foreign recipes I've been reading might have used a different cup volume than the one I got from Google...
It was already agonizing enough to convert all the volumes to metric and now I can't even be sure that I got those right. Argh!
I'm left with so many questions like why tf does Australia have their own teaspoon and why are coffee cups half a cup?
I just misread „because a cubic centimeter is a milliliter“ as „because a cubic centimeter is a millimeter“ lol
That's metric 2.0
As a European, I am highly confused.
Edit: grammar ( thank you for pointing it out )
A cup is an American cooking measurement, 250mls. There's also tablespoons and teaspoons, 15ml and 5ml respectively.
Edit: ok so apparently 250ml is a metric cup, an american cup varies, there's also a 280ml imperial cup i think, and some other bullshit. Let's just all agree that it's somewhere between 200 and 300ml. Delving further leads only to the lurid gates of madness.
An "American cup" is 236.588 ml.
An "Imperial" cup is 284.131 ml.
A Japanese cup is 200ml.
EDIT: Let me add that a US "Legal" cup is 240ml precisely.
TIL. The American cup being so much smaller explains a few failed recipe attempts.
yup. i remember when i was younger and not knowing the whole cups and spoons thing was actually a determined measurement system, and i was following along an american recipe, and it had a cup of something, so i just grabbed a tea cup and used that to measure it
As an Australian, the real tricky one is that an Australian tablespoon is 20ml while everywhere else it's 15ml.
Sometimes it's really hard to know which standard any given recipe is using.
Oh my goodness, you've just solved a mystery for me! I've got an Australian food blogger who I like to use her recipes, but occasionally one just mysteriously doesn't work right!
Sometimes it's really hard to know which standard any given recipe is using.
If only there was some universally accepted system of measuring things, maybe call it a measure-tric system or something, I'm not good with names.
There's a few examples. A US pint is roughly 470ml, and an imperial pint is roughly 570ml
I forget the exact measurements, but a US gallon is about 80% the size of an imperial gallon. That also obviously impacts quarts and stuff like that.
Everything is bigger in America, except for measurements
What about a Stanley Cup?
metric cup is 250ml
metric is always the most simple
wtf? metric cups??? just give up the blasted, idiot cup thing and use measuring jugs like sane people at that point surely?
who are these sane people? surely you arent talking about the yanks using fluid ounces
I like the abbreviation for fluid ounces. I like saying floz. It's an alien measurement to me though. Totally unusable.
What the fuck is a florida ounce
Crystal meth usually
Eight-five bucks. Or 175 if you got it off Billy.
amount of crocodiles Alligators found in one square hamburger radius of land in Florida is one florida ounce.
thanks to Senior-Pace7683 for correcting me, I had been ignorant.
I like saying flounces.
Oh never thought of that. I like it. I never use it cause I'm from the metric world, but it's a fun word
I use freedom units, but calling an oppressor unit a name like flounces is fun
What the fuck is a fluid ounce
American fluid ounces are set up so that 12 gallons of water weigh 100 pounds.
Each gallon has 4 quarts or 16 cups or 128 fluid ounces. 128 standard ounces is 8 pounds, but 128 fluid ounces of water is 8⅓ pounds.
British gallons are set up differently: 10 imperial gallons weigh 100 pounds.
I'm sorry, but from someone used to metric, thus seems so stupid! 
As a metric computer scientist, I love the powers of two. But they are weirdly inconsistent.
I'm feeling dizzy
okay thank god i’m not alone, this killed me and i’m american
“Metric cup” is such a dumb saying lmao
At that point surely you’d just say 250ml
Yeah, there isn't a "cup" measurement in the metric system, but I guess the standard size of a cup is 250ml. Just like the standard size of a soda can is 330ml, or 500ml for a large one.
but I guess the standard size of a cup is 250ml.
Not really tho. Cakes who use cups or mugs as measurement in metric cookbooks are all about the ratio of ingredients and very safe not to mess up. Unless you use espresso or giant mugs. But most normal mugs and cups are somewhere between 150/200 and 400 ml and you would need to measure or look up bc you can not just assume its 250.
If you go to a cooking shop and buy a set of cup measures, the 1c measure is 250ml.
A cup is not a standard SI unit, but the metric cooking world has decided that 250ml is a convenient sort of amount to base recipes around. It is very close to conventional measures used throughout history, but modified for easier maths. Hence the 'metric' cup.
When a recipe says 1 cup of flour, it does not mean "reach for a cup, any cup, and fill it with flour." It means, get out your measuring cups (in whatever system the recipe was written for) and locate the 1 cup measure. Fill that up with flour. If that cup is dirty, fins the 1/2 cup measure and fill it twice."
It's a convenient shorthand recognised as a pseudo standard throughout the culinary world. Recipes cam vary based on ingredients and weather, so exact precision isn't needed. If 1c flour doesn't seem enough, you add a little more.
Editing to add: in the end, it's only a problem when multiple systems are used, or when indivisible but wildly irregular ingredients are used. If you're making a cake with cup measures for everything, plus an egg, you can probably just use any more or less average cup, as long as you use the same cup for every ingredient.
No one says "metric cup", it's just a cup. The idea being that it divides evenly into a litre in the same way that there are 4 (imperial or US) cups in a quart.
250mls in Australia.
Oh no, so when I use a metric cup of 250ml with an American recipe, I’m actually using too much of something! Blast!
The US legal cup is defined as 240ml
You already have usefull measurements and still stuck to "cups" and "spoons"?....
I mean even as a European, lots of recipes are telling use to put like a teaspoon of baking powder so I just put it in a teaspoon because they're all around the same size, I never know what a cup is though
The brief time I spent in Europe they had 5ml and 15ml measuring spoons. Looking it up now, 1 teaspoon = 4.929ml and 1 tablespoon = 14.787ml. Apparently, the rounded versions are also called "metric" tea/tablespoons.
That's totally possible although it likely won't mess with your recipe
Because its quick to measure and the precision does not matter too much for cooking. But in reality everyone should just use gram. It doesn’t vary depending of the size of your salt unlike volume measurements
A cup is: * 8 fluid ounces * 1/2 of a pint * 1/4 of a quart * 1/16 of a gallon * 236.6 mL
No idea what ounces and pints are but that might be on me.
A pint is something you get at the pub
American pints and British pints are different, just to make things extra confusing.
Of course they are...
Two nations divided by a common language
Yeah, British pints have a safety bulge, whereas American don't and can slide out of your hand when they get slick with condensation.
We like freedom units
Last time I freed my unit, they threw me in jail.
Wait till he hears about the others... the teaspoons / tablespoons, the pinch, the dash, and the smidgen!
Before it happens: yes, your people has been at the moon. But NASA always used metric.
Didn't nasa have major issues at one time because they converted between units and everything was just slightly off?
If your thinking of the Mars lander that crashed it was because a contractor was using imperial units, contrary to their contract requirements, whereas the NASA system was expecting values in metric.
Mars lander it was only a lander because of the error. It was supposed to be a probe that orbits Mars
More than one time, yea. And because of that now they are exclusively using metric.
If I recall it correctly, it was because lokeed Martin used freedom units instead of metric
isn’t it just easier to have a measuring jug and scales lol
well, it's useful when you have only cups and spoons
I’m from the UK and honestly I use cups sometimes because I’d rather just scoop out 1 cup of rice then weighing 280g of rice or whatever. And it opens up a whole world of American recipies which are easier to simply buy a £3 cup set use their measurements than do the maths every time
he last time the US made serious attempt to covert was 50 years ago. And I know I spend 1st through 6th grade learning both systems because we were supposed to be converting. Then Reagan got in office and say "fuck that shit" and we no longer had to learn it. If we had stuck to the plan everyone under 55 would see metric as normal. Anyway we do use metric in the US for some things and we are slowly changing but if we convert it will be voluntary and thus it will take a long time. Not in my lifetime. Maybe by 2100.
Its not that. In my whole life I have never seen someone using the cubic of a measurement unit and convert it. This kinda makes me feel uncomfortable and I have the urge to call the police
You’ve never seen m3 converted to liters? That’s kinda weird… 1 m3 = 1000 liters. That’s kinda useful when talking about filling a pool or pond, or when reading the water meter…
Or when talking about engine displacement it's useful to know that 1000 cc = 1000 cm3 = 1 l
I think he means m3 converted to cups
"911 what's your emergency?" "Uhm well I think OP may be one of the ::air quotes:: lizard people."
Or something along those lines?
The US measures dry things things by volume that we measure by weight, like sugar and flour. To make baking more exciting, sometimes they call for packed cups, which means rather than just a level scoop, it's tapped to get it to settle, then topped up.
I'm sure that if you have grown up with that measurement system it's fine, but grams works for literally everything, and there's no guesswork.
It's a pain in the behind to grow up with that measurement because you eventually learn that metric is much simpler but training your mind to view things in a different measurement scale is darn near impossible.
When spelling European it’s actually correct to write ‘a European’ because it’s not pronounced with a vowel.
I think it's 1 cup = 2 girls 🤷♂️
I do things my way. Too much too fast for some .
Siri literally has powers of the gods but occasionally it’s like.. nah
“Siri? How big is the Serengeti?”
“No problem; show me pictures of spaghetti.”
I literally typed "64 cm3 to cups" on Google and it gave me the answer immediately.
WHICH cup did it give you? US, Imperial, or Japanese?
Op made the mistake of using siri for anything more than calendar notifications
At least comment section got mildly infuriated
I’ll bet it’ll work if you said 64 ml, it probably only has liters and milliliters in its vocabulary. Thankfully, the metric system works nice that way. 🇺🇸
My cup have 20 oz, how many cups in my cup ?
Tbh, that makes me want to switch over more than anything else.
“The spill was 100Kl.”
That’s 100,000,000ml or 100,000,000cc or 1,000,000cm or 1,000cKm.
That means the spill would cover a 1,000 kilometer area one centimeter deep.
I am about 30% sure I did the math correctly.
cm3 or km3 would be correct. 'cm' always means centimeter and never cubic meter
Also its cubed, so there are 1,000,000 cubic cms in a cubic meter.
For some reason we don't use kiloliters (1000L) but hectoliters (100L) which is the largest unit. You could say Kiloliter and people would get what you mean but it's not used.
My water bill in Australia is measured in kL.
Yes, but Australia is weird so it doesn't count.
That's because we use cubic meters, as 1000L are 1m³
What the fuck are you cooking that's measured in cubic centimetres?
Damn snooty Europeans refusing to use beans and toenail clipping for measurements like a normal person.
just as fyi, cup measurement is not the same across the world
I grew up in England where everyone weighed themselves in stones and miles were used instead of km (this was 15 years ago, moved to Canada now).
All the English people in this comment section ripping on North Americans using cups as a measurement need to sit down and sip their 240mLs of tea. Don’t pretend you don’t dip into imperial every now and again!
It's my belief that the British adopted just enough metric to be allowed to make fun of Americans, but not enough to stop being weird themselves. Miles, feet, inches, stones (an especially weird one). The British imperial isn't even the same as American!
Also some fringe old people want to fully return to the imperial system. It's dumb.
Nah it's even more different, English people only use feet and inches as a measurement of height, stones and pounds as a measurement of human weight, and miles as a distance specifically when driving.
I still know my exact height and weight in cm/kg, and I use KM when going on walks. The imperial stuff is so specific that it's not like America where people only know imperial by heart, on a day to day basic people mainly use metric especially the younger you go.
lol, Americans be measuring their dick sizes in cups and fluid ounces
cubic centimeters is volume, but cups are just vibes bro
Btw I asked Google assistant and it answered correctly
Americans will measure in everything but the metric system
We also use the metric system. When I'm measuring cable length, it's in meters. When I'm measuring ingredients, it's in feeling.
God I hate when recipes use cups
What the fuck is wrong with Grams,Liters and Millilitres
And a pinch of use the fucking metric system
Yeahh! What the fuck is a cup of butter? melted? Squished? Just loosely thrown in there? Or fucking onions? Diced? pureed? Whole? Thats such a huge difference, i hate that shit
1 cup of butter. Fair enough I'll melt the butter. reads recipe again dry butter.
WTF IS DRY BUTTER! HOW CAN BUTTER BE DRY!
A stick of butter is 8 Tablespoons and which would be a half cup
Wtf is a stick of butter? My butter comes in nice blocks of 250g with markings for 50g subdivisions.
Well excuse me Mr Educated, not all of us eat our cereal from a gram or a liter. I eat my Frosties from a cup like a REAL American!
Worked for me saying cubic centimeters rather than cm³.
I would’ve never missed the opportunity to say CCs like in doctor show
I know it's kind of arbitrary and just depends which system you grow up with, but as a Metric user Cups was always an especially weird one for me.
Why do Americans use every random shit for measuring except for the actual you know numbers and shit.
What kind of moron uses cm3 instead of mL
Google Assistant handled it.
Well I don’t think anyone measures in cubic centimeters for liquids you need to change to mL
siri is so fucking trash and in the age of AI I don’t know why. like is the code just too fucked to edit or something
Apple kinda gave up on it. It reached a level of acceptable functionality and they shifted their focus to other features/products
Yeah siri is just above Bixby it's severely more stupid than Google assistant which got it correct immediately
1 cm3 is equivalent to 1 mL
So it probably expects you to ask “64 mL to cups”
It's three inches but smells like a foot.
I used to drive a Mustang with a 21 cup engine