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why don't people say mega meters (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by joel_feila@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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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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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 78 points 3 months ago

Familiarity I guess. Mega isn't really a widely used prefix outside of computers. We even say tons instead of megagrams.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 3 months ago

megaton, megawatt, megapascal, megacandela (for military flares), megahertz, megajoule, megaohm, megabequerel

[-] pissclumps@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Megatron

[-] Kefass@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

That's a lot of Trons

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 3 points 3 months ago

That's bad comedy

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