I'm a fan of light nanosecond, which works out to roughly 30 cm.
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m always disappointed that megameter isn’t a common word. People will say “one thousand kilometers” instead of just “one megameter”.
Klear@quokk.au 2 months ago
markz@suppo.fi 2 months ago
Infinitely cooler than a “foot”
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is also approximately 30 cm
markz@suppo.fi 2 months ago
Exactly, but those foot fetishists with their stinky units seem to think otherwise.
exu@feditown.com 2 months ago
Is kibimeter a technically allowed measurement? That would be fun!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can anyone say it isn’t? You’re using a valid prefix, so people will understand what you’re saying, if they have no idea in hell why you’re measuring out 1024 meters.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 months ago
Yes, the same way that kiloinches is technically allowed.
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Engineers use milliinches all the time! They call it thous but it’s the same thing.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about kilo-klick?
warm@kbin.earth 2 months ago
I'm more disappointed the world renamed one thousand million from milliard to billion.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“the world”?
If you came over to the other side of the pond, you’d find that most of Europe is still using milliard, billiard, trilliard etc.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anglocentrism strikes again!
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I think that’s one thing that’s actually fine about the English language though. Constantly switching between something ending with “ion” to “iard” instead of just counting up doesn’t make much sense to me personally.
Million (1A), Milliard (1B), Billion (2A), Billiard (2B) seems odd compared to Million (1), Billion (2), Trillion (3), Quadrillion (4)
I suppose the upside is that you don’t have to learn as many prefixes, but it’ll take another few years of inflation and wealth centralization (at least with currencies like the Euro, Dollar, or Pound) until Quadrillion is relevant in the financial sector and Mathematicians generally use letters. I suppose it makes other natural sciences a tiny bit easier, but there it’s usually written in scientific notation anyways.
Hoimo@ani.social 2 months ago
The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.
warm@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Crazy assumption.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Crazy assumption. Yes, it’s true for the English speaking world, but it’s much more nuanced outside of it. Here’s a map from Wikipedia:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#/me…
Keep in mind that your link to wiktionary only covers languages where it is spelled exactly “milliard”.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
When translating to Finnish it’s confusing sometimes: Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000 Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You probably want double new lines in your posts. Or two spaces at the end of your paragraphs but that’s usually a bit annoying to do.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Or just \ at the end, like so
Texty text text \ Text
Becomes
Like thisTeNppa@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Thanks! Forgot to do that. Now edited.
guy@piefed.social 2 months ago
The long system with milliard and billiard increases with every potens which makes sense. The short system on the other hand 🤷
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.
Looks like we have something in common! Hämmästyttävä!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
biljoona
Heh that’s a funny word.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
[deleted]Rothe@piefed.social 2 months ago
Again, anglocentrism strikes. Your feeling is strictly based on your personal experience with your own words. It is like when Americans claim fahrenheit is more for humans than celsius, because they are unable to fathom things they have no experience with.
markz@suppo.fi 2 months ago
I think that’s just not being used to it.
Johanno@feddit.org 2 months ago
Megameter gigameter,
Next thing is one astronomical unit.
And then we are using light years.
Not very linear those last two.
And I am sure that gigameters would still be better than light years.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
well neither astronomical unit nor light years use meters as a reference. and one of those isnt even accurate (AU)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think AUs are just meant to mean “far away (like much further away than the pub)”.
python@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People will say “one thousand kilometers”
Will they though? I don’t talk about distances that large anywhere near often enough to really need a shorthand for it, personally. Had to even look up what things are approximately 1000km apart to even know what to imagine it as (it’s about the distance between Paris and Berlin).
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yes, every time I’ve ever heard someone use metric to describe distances of >999km, they keep using kilometers.
guy@piefed.social 2 months ago
Sweden is quite long, so talking about traveling>1 000 km is not uncommon, but here we have mil, which is equal to 10 km. So on my vacation I traveled 120 mil is more useful and common
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Oh no, over here a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, haha
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Comes up a literal metric ass load (8 bushels) when your talking about travel in the USA.
We big
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Car mileage (or kilometerage, is that a word?)
People don’t say the car has 200 megameter on the odometer, but 200 000 km. Or 200k km?..
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 months ago
In Sweden we say 20 000 mil. I always have to stop for a second to convert when people use km.
logi@piefed.world 2 months ago
You should consider adopting metric and avoid these conversion steps.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 months ago
In Scandinavia we have “mil” which everyone uses, 1 mil, or Scandinavian mile as it is known in English, is 10km. Cuts down ln zeroes. I love this but no one else(outside of Scandinavia) uses it.I typically get a lot of pushback mentioning it to my international peers.
ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sweden and Norway only. Few people in Denmark know what a mil is. And virtually no one here uses it.
Yeah-yeah; something something Denmark. I know…
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 2 months ago
It’s never too late to change the path you are going down, friend.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
but there is already decameter
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Decameter is 10 meter, not 10 kilometer. 10km would be a myriadmeter. (SI prefix names are based on greek, and myriad is the greek-based name for 10 000).
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
i did correct myself like 3 minutes after posting
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Especially with several thousand kilometres.
“Eleven mega metre” rolls off the tongue much better than “eleven thousands kilo metre” IMO.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll never forgive the French for going from grave to gram to kg as the base unit of mass.
All my other base units don’t have a prefix :(
Such a pity.
BRING BACK THE GRAVE
Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Make it a gigameter for my 1000 megameter needs
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
The only bad thing about metric is that billionaires technically do have giga dollars.