Comment by meindnoch
6 hours ago
>4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms
It is exactly four million kilograms. (Germany uses the SI metric ton)
6 hours ago
>4,000 tons is almost four million kilograms
It is exactly four million kilograms. (Germany uses the SI metric ton)
TIL there are two units of measurement that are both called ton but confusingly are not the same as a ton. One is a tiny bit more than a ton (1.016 tons) and one is a bit less (0.907 tons). Apparently people use the prefixes long and short to differentiate them, at least that part is intuitive.