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[hermano]

Obviously all objects and beings in df have enough mass to bend space-time...
Or dragons are just really tiny.

[Quantum Toast]

I've always thought of it as one cubic urist

This is a hallway.  Its volume is one cubic urist.  Its length is one urist.  The pressure of the air in the hallway is 100 urists.  The temperature is 10000 urists.  It weights 100 urists.

The magma covering the floor is three hepti-urists deep.

[pruwyben]

I've always thought of it as one cubic urist

This is a hallway.  Its volume is one cubic urist.  Its length is one urist.  The pressure of the air in the hallway is 100 urists.  The temperature is 10000 urists.  It weights 100 urists.

The magma covering the floor is three hepti-urists deep.

It is flowing at a rate of 3.7 Urists per Urist.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

I've always thought of it as one cubic urist

This is a hallway.  Its volume is one cubic urist.  Its length is one urist.  The pressure of the air in the hallway is 100 urists.  The temperature is 10000 urists.  It weights 100 urists.

The magma covering the floor is three hepti-urists deep.

It is flowing at a rate of 3.7 Urists per Urist.

But then you get 3.7Urist/Urist, which comes to 3.7(1/1)...

[Squirrelloid]

The unit of time is the only unit which isn't an Urist.  Its the 'tick'.

[Eric Blank]

They live in a world of inexplicable geometries and inconstant space. Why do you think dwarves go insane so easily?

So easily? I've had dwarfs who have lost their children, spouse, and dearest friends to unspeakable creatures from the Pit and are freaking ECSTATIC because of their posh dining quarters.

That in itself is insanity, just the kind that allows them to continue doing their job.

And we should really assign individual, unique names to the measurements in DF...

[ungulateman]

Even D&D screws up there - an adult dragon is 2 squares x 2 squares, yet is described as being the size of an elephant.

Elephants are bigger than that, people. Some people are nearly that tall.

Adult dragons are 3*3 now, but squares no longer have dimensions.

Adults are Large, Elders and Ancients are Huge. It says squares are roughly 5 feet by 5 feet in the combat section, squirreled away somewhere.

[Frumple]

Just my 10c, but there may be a way (sorta'-kinda'-notreally) to find the absolute minimum and maximum in terms of volume for a square, providing DF human ~= modern man. The smallest a creature can possibly be is 1/70000th the volume of an adult human, giving us a solid reference point for the minimum a square could hold.

Then it's just a matter of getting to modding and see just how large a critter can get (There's got to be a maximum limit of some sort; it's at least 20 mil 'urists') and then multiplying that by 100, then by whatever number that 1/70000 comes out to be, giving us the maximum volume of a square... well, after finding out what the potential maximums would be if all 100 of those critters height and broadness values were stretched to their max.

Still, it could ultimately come up with some absolute numbers... which would probably just show how incredibly screwed up DF's physical world is in comparison to ours. Would be interesting to see what numbers popped out, I guess, if only for the mathematics!hilarity it would invoke.