Comment by tantalor
8 hours ago
It's not too prosaic, it's just too imprecise. There is no standard size, and some regulations even allow a range of sizes.
8 hours ago
It's not too prosaic, it's just too imprecise. There is no standard size, and some regulations even allow a range of sizes.
I don't think that's relevant for Register units. Clearly there's a standard brontosaurus somewhere, for instance, otherwise how could we have the conversion table? However, sorry, I was wrong about the football pitch, at least as a unit of area, equal to 194.89nWa per the original article: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2007/08/24/so-whats-the-...
You're not wrong! Personally, I like to use penguin as a measure of height. Everybody knows how big a penguin is, right? It's pretty standard.