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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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[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

There's also scientific notation which eliminates having to use these prefixes so you can more easily compare and manipulate numbers.

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