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

  • LostXOR
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    38 months ago

    I’ve always found that strange. I guess a kilogram is a lot closer to “human scale” than a gram, maybe that’s why they picked it.

    • Aatube
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      28 months ago

      SI also does meter instead of cm, so it overall checks out.

        • Aatube
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          18 months ago

          But that is like a giant difference in what they usually measure

    • @[email protected]OP
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      28 months ago

      yeah humans do really need a small, inch and cm, a medium, meter and feet, and a big, mile and km.