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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

why don't people say mega meters

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why don't people say mega meters

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

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Scientific notation for everything: 5 x 10^6 m. Seriously though, I think it would be easier to think about it in megameters or gigameters if it were more standard to do so.
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  Can we do 5E6 like on the calculators? Is that common enough?
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  yeah but sadly not enough people know how to read that. sadface.

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