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

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aulin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Which is 1 cm³ of water if we want to stay in SI. And if that’s the basis for it, then why not make a gram = the weight of 1 dm³ of water and then we wouldn’t need a prefix for weights in the stuff-we-usually-carry-around range. It still doesn’t make sense to me to have a prefixed unit being the base unit.

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