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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

A useful size to package and sell ingredients in, such that the person following a recipe can halve or double the recipe as needed and still use the entire package with no waste.

Would it help if I told you that it was defined as the volume contained in a cube whose length is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/166219513th of a second? I imagine it wouldn't. Obviously the litre is superior, it's a much less arbitrary cube defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/2997924580 seconds.

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