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 5 days agoI’ve wondered in the past why, for example, 1000 kilometers are still referred to as kilometers.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days 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 5 days ago
They should.
MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
The moon is roughly 385 megameters away, or 0.4 gigameters!
Gurfaild@feddit.org 5 days ago
To avoid confusion, just use mebimeters (1 Mim = 2^20 m)
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I only use parsecs to measure distance
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Pretty sure parsecs measure time.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yes, millimeters, or any other milli measurement (EG milliamps) starts with a lower case.
Kilo and up is capitalised.