▲ 165 ▼ why don't people say mega meters (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by joel_feila@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm? why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?
[–] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) To be fair, mass is weird because the base unit is kg (yes, the name includes a prefactor). I have no idea how they managed to fuck it up that badly. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago Apparently they were going to use gram for what we now call kg, but decided to make it kg. I expect it's because we used grams so much for food. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago Apparently they were going to use gram for what we now call kg, but decided to make it kg. I expect it's because we used grams so much for food. permalink fedilink source parent