• Little_mouse@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    They try to make a distinction when referring to kilocalories as Calories, it’s literally just that Calorie (kcal) is capitalized and calorie (cal) is not.

    It’s a dumb system.

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      8 days ago

      It’s all just because Americans edit: the majority of Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes