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

  • Turun@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    To be fair, mass is weird because the base unit is kg (yes, the name includes a prefactor). I have no idea how they managed to fuck it up that badly.

    • someguy3@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Apparently they were going to use gram for what we now call kg, but decided to make it kg. I expect it’s because we used grams so much for food.