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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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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (22 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] pissclumps 31 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] Kefass 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That's bad comedy

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