Hehe, nice catch. Technically, under SI standard we could call that 1 megameters… It’s mostly we rarely address distances beyond 1000 kilometers in day to day life so kilometers still make some sense. Where under Imperial units, there isn’t any unit above mile. For batteries, we don’t really use anything less in phones anymore, only smartwatches and earbuds use capacities under 1000.
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toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’ve wondered in the past why, for example, 1000 kilometers are still referred to as kilometers.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
People don’t use megameters enough that you can rely on them knowing what it is nor have an intuition for it even if they technically know.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They should.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
The moon is roughly 385 megameters away, or 0.4 gigameters!
Gurfaild@feddit.org 2 months ago
To avoid confusion, just use mebimeters (1 Mim = 2^20 m)
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I only use parsecs to measure distance
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pretty sure parsecs measure time.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yes, millimeters, or any other milli measurement (EG milliamps) starts with a lower case.
Kilo and up is capitalised.