12,000
I’m sure you were joking but that is the answer. 3,412 BTU/HR is 1 kW is 0.2843 Tons.
I just spent 8 hours taking a test that was mostly converting between those three.
Quoted for truth.
I couldn’t stick with programming because while I’ve got a pretty got eye for bit crunching and my code came out pretty clean, after a while of trying to concoct every rare, possibly never-to-be-encountered in the real world case and entering another sub or “OR” into the code to cover it, my mind began to melt. I couldn’t imagine doing it for 8 hours a day.
If I’d been the one to come up with WYSIWYG it would have ended up as WYSIWYG-ish.
Yes, I was joking.
But you teach an interesting point. A BTU is a unit of (heat) energy. Apparently a ton (like a kW) is a unit of power since you equate BTU/hr to tons via a constant. Who knew?
Units analysis is much easier when we call things what they are, not some dead guy’s name. Although a lot of info can get hidden in units cancellation. meters/meter-second says more than does seconds[sup]-1[/sup].
So there’s 200 BTU/minutes per ton That’s nice and round, sorta. But it’s 3.3333… BTU/seconds per ton. That’s … less round.
The mind boggles. Better you than me Kemosabe! 
Nobody uses furlongs, we use chains. It’s just as easy to say 10 chains as it is to say 1 furlong and 10 square chains per acre is a lot more useful than 1 square furlong per 10 acres. I’ll admit 64 square furlongs in a section is nice. I’d rather deal with 640 acres.
I work in survey, and a lot of documentation for courthouse recordation used to be required on legal-sized paper. We still use it often, but it has slowly started winding down, replaced by letter- or ledger-sized.
Wait, I’ve been in printing for decades, but I’ve gotta look up “ledger-sized” now. So there’s Letter, Legal, Tabloid, AND Ledger?
(Nope, Ledger = Tabloid. Why? Oh, and there’s a 7x10 inch “Executive” size, too… again, why?)
Not to mention the British books I read that mention Foolscap, Quarto and Folio sizes. And apparently a 4.5 x 7 inch sheet is a Small Post Octavo…
Standards are simpler, people! Can you see why a sheet of A4 (half the size of A3, twice the size of A5) makes more sense?
When is the length of a football field going to get its own symbol? That’s a unit of measure that’s constantly being used, much to my chagrin because, not being a fan, I really can’t visualize it all that well.
It also depends on which sized TV you’re watching the game on. And how much zoom the camera operator is using. 
Besides, ref digs’ lament just above, would that be a US football field, a rest-of-world football field, or an Aussie rules football field? Not to mention CFL, XFL, and arena football league fields.
The nice part about standards is there’s so many to pick from.
Oh, and digs,: FYI quarto & folio are standard sizes. Just from very old standards. Which were also based on doubling and halving as you go larger or smaller.
Oh! Then I’ll stop making fun of the Brits… for the rest of the day.
Btw, I play non-American football (We say FUUUT’-bol with a terrible Caribbean accent to distinguish between the two), and the “standard” size pitch is:
“The entire playing field should be within the following dimensions: Standard–> Touch line (length): 90 m (100 yd) to 120 m (130 yd); Goal line (width) : 45 m (50 yd) to 90 m (100 yd) International matches –> Touch line (length): 100 m (110 yd) to 110 m (120 yd); Goal line (width) : 64 m (70 yd) to 75 m (80 yd)”
Oh just great, now I have to stop using furlongs. :mad:
You could always switch to rods.
So is octavo. Quarto and octavo just mean 1/4 and 1/8 of the size on which the standard was based.
The reason most people of my age used “legal pads” was because one handwritten legal pad page was close to enough writing to equal one typewritten page. Lots of folks had no typewriter back and had to hire typing out for term papers and so on. I haven’t used a legal pad ever since I acquired a computer and printer. Even though my typing still sucks, it’s a heck of a lot easier to create a good page with a computer than with a typewriter since a mistake can be corrected before it hits the paper!