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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

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A metric tonne (1000 kg) should be called a megagram (1 Mg).

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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I noticed this with vehicles. Odo has 100,000 km on it? Nah, it’s 100 megameters. It just sounds cooler
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  0.1 gigameters
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