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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m always disappointed that megameter isn’t a common word. People will say “one thousand kilometers” instead of just “one megameter”.

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially with several thousand kilometres.

    “Eleven mega metre” rolls off the tongue much better than “eleven thousands kilo metre” IMO.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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  • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      well neither astronomical unit nor light years use meters as a reference. and one of those isnt even accurate (AU)

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  • python@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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).

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    • guy@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Comes up a literal metric ass load (8 bushels) when your talking about travel in the USA.

      We big

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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?..

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, every time I’ve ever heard someone use metric to describe distances of >999km, they keep using kilometers.

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'm a fan of light nanosecond, which works out to roughly 30 cm.

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Infinitely cooler than a “foot”

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  • boboliosisjones@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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…

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    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but there is already decameter

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'm more disappointed the world renamed one thousand million from milliard to billion.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • TeNppa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is kibimeter a technically allowed measurement? That would be fun!

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    • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, the same way that kiloinches is technically allowed.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How about kilo-klick?

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  • Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make it a gigameter for my 1000 megameter needs

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    • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The only bad thing about metric is that billionaires technically do have giga dollars.

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