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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] db2@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because kilodegrees sounds funny. But megadegrees really sounds volcano lair evil.

[โ€“] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Megadegrees sounds like something graduates from Trump University got for finishing a retreat. They are the highest quality degrees - so good they deserve to have their own name!

Going back to temperature though, it would be odd-sounding to say the Sun can get as hot as 15 megadegrees at it's core.