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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    9 months ago

    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.