How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The beauty of the metric system is you don’t lose a sense of scale from using a higher unit because you can intuitively know 1Mm is 1000km.