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• RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hehe, nice catch. Technically, under SI standard we could call that 1 megameters… It’s mostly we rarely address distances beyond 1000 kilometers in day to day life so kilometers still make some sense. Where under Imperial units, there isn’t any unit above mile. For batteries, we don’t really use anything less in phones anymore, only smartwatches and earbuds use capacities under 1000.

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• MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The moon is roughly 385 megameters away, or 0.4 gigameters!

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  • Gurfaild@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To avoid confusion, just use mebimeters (1 Mim = 2^20 m)

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    • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I only use parsecs to measure distance

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      • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pretty sure parsecs measure time.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, millimeters, or any other milli measurement (EG milliamps) starts with a lower case.

    Kilo and up is capitalised.

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• zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People don’t use megameters enough that you can rely on them knowing what it is nor have an intuition for it even if they technically know.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They should.

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