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How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

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[-] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

We also use deciliter and centiliters, which is odd for some.

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