american football fields or euro football fields? please use the standard cheeseburger π
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Americans will use anything but metric
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The football you play with your hands, of course.
5.1 Mm?
510 mym
Five point one millimeter of what?
M β m in metric. Example: 1 MB = 1000 kB
M β m in metric
Maybe not in academic notation, but in every day writing, it ABSOLUTELY is used as it and Mm isn't used for kilometer anywhere lol
Also, since we're nitpicking, 5190 rounds to 5200, not 5100 π
Mm is absolutely used as a shorter form of 1000km where I 'm from, especially when you're talking about the distance you (or your vehicle) travels per year.
But how many swimming pools is that?
Assuming FINA pools, 100940
But there's a ferry in the middle
Should reroute it via the Γresund bridge and tunnel.
The bridge is already occupied by the E20.
So does the Pan American Highway, but if we are willing to call that 30,000 km, i am willing to give the Euros their 5,000 km highway to feel important.
The Panama Canal has a bridge over it, correct? Where is the ferry required? The Darien Gap?
The circumference of the planet is 40,000 km. If you made a highway and it's 30,000 km long you fucked up.
It's also the about distance from San Francisco to Las Vegas.
Should just move San Francisco to Finnmark and Vegas to Sicily, then. It's just easier that way π€·
But how many Danny DeVitos?
The length of the E45 route from Finnmark to Sicily is a little under 3.5 million Danny DeVitos...is DEFINITELY a unique sentence π
is there a turnoff that leads to gibralter? because that would be so cool.
I mean, there's probably thousands of places along the route where you can make a turn in order to head towards Gibraltar π€·
Any trains though?
In Europe? Yes, a few. Would even go so far as to say MANY!