I'm a fan of light nanosecond, which works out to roughly 30 cm.
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m always disappointed that megameter isn’t a common word. People will say “one thousand kilometers” instead of just “one megameter”.
Klear@quokk.au 21 hours ago
markz@suppo.fi 20 hours ago
Infinitely cooler than a “foot”
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Which is also approximately 30 cm
markz@suppo.fi 17 hours ago
Exactly, but those foot fetishists with their stinky units seem to think otherwise.
exu@feditown.com 1 day ago
Is kibimeter a technically allowed measurement? That would be fun!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Can anyone say it isn’t? You’re using a valid prefix, so people will understand what you’re saying, if they have no idea in hell why you’re measuring out 1024 meters.
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Yes, the same way that kiloinches is technically allowed.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How about kilo-klick?
warm@kbin.earth 23 hours ago
I'm more disappointed the world renamed one thousand million from milliard to billion.
chellomere@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
“the world”?
If you came over to the other side of the pond, you’d find that most of Europe is still using milliard, billiard, trilliard etc.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Anglocentrism strikes again!
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
I think that’s one thing that’s actually fine about the English language though. Constantly switching between something ending with “ion” to “iard” instead of just counting up doesn’t make much sense to me personally.
Million (1A), Milliard (1B), Billion (2A), Billiard (2B) seems odd compared to Million (1), Billion (2), Trillion (3), Quadrillion (4)
I suppose the upside is that you don’t have to learn as many prefixes, but it’ll take another few years of inflation and wealth centralization (at least with currencies like the Euro, Dollar, or Pound) until Quadrillion is relevant in the financial sector and Mathematicians generally use letters. I suppose it makes other natural sciences a tiny bit easier, but there it’s usually written in scientific notation anyways.
Hoimo@ani.social 20 hours ago
The million-milliard system means a billion has double the zeroes compared to million, trillion has triple the zeroes, etc. In the English system, a quadrillion has 15 zeroes, so 4 times 3 plus 3? A quadrillion should have 4*6=24 zeroes.
warm@kbin.earth 14 hours ago
Crazy assumption.
chellomere@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Crazy assumption. Yes, it’s true for the English speaking world, but it’s much more nuanced outside of it. Here’s a map from Wikipedia:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#/me…
Keep in mind that your link to wiktionary only covers languages where it is spelled exactly “milliard”.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 23 hours ago
When translating to Finnish it’s confusing sometimes: Billion = miljardi = 1 000 000 000 Trillion = biljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 Quintillion = triljoona = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 You can tell how bad a news site is when they translate billion to biljoona and thus making the amount 1000 times higher.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
You probably want double new lines in your posts. Or two spaces at the end of your paragraphs but that’s usually a bit annoying to do.
TeNppa@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
Thanks! Forgot to do that. Now edited.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Or just \ at the end, like so
Texty text text \ Text
Becomes
Like this
guy@piefed.social 20 hours ago
The long system with milliard and billiard increases with every potens which makes sense. The short system on the other hand 🤷
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
biljoona
Heh that’s a funny word.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
hating on milliardaries doesn’t feel as impactful and cathartic.
Rothe@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Again, anglocentrism strikes. Your feeling is strictly based on your personal experience with your own words. It is like when Americans claim fahrenheit is more for humans than celsius, because they are unable to fathom things they have no experience with.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
i’m not from the us, and the word for billionaire is almost the same in my language.
markz@suppo.fi 20 hours ago
I think that’s just not being used to it.
Johanno@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Megameter gigameter,
Next thing is one astronomical unit.
And then we are using light years.
Not very linear those last two.
And I am sure that gigameters would still be better than light years.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
well neither astronomical unit nor light years use meters as a reference. and one of those isnt even accurate (AU)
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I think AUs are just meant to mean “far away (like much further away than the pub)”.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 21 hours ago
In Scandinavia we have “mil” which everyone uses, 1 mil, or Scandinavian mile as it is known in English, is 10km. Cuts down ln zeroes. I love this but no one else(outside of Scandinavia) uses it.I typically get a lot of pushback mentioning it to my international peers.
ArcaneGadget@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sweden and Norway only. Few people in Denmark know what a mil is. And virtually no one here uses it.
Yeah-yeah; something something Denmark. I know…
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 12 hours ago
It’s never too late to change the path you are going down, friend.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
but there is already decameter
squaresinger@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Decameter is 10 meter, not 10 kilometer. 10km would be a myriadmeter. (SI prefix names are based on greek, and myriad is the greek-based name for 10 000).
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
i did correct myself like 3 minutes after posting
python@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
People will say “one thousand kilometers”
Will they though? I don’t talk about distances that large anywhere near often enough to really need a shorthand for it, personally. Had to even look up what things are approximately 1000km apart to even know what to imagine it as (it’s about the distance between Paris and Berlin).
hperrin@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Yes, every time I’ve ever heard someone use metric to describe distances of >999km, they keep using kilometers.
guy@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Sweden is quite long, so talking about traveling>1 000 km is not uncommon, but here we have mil, which is equal to 10 km. So on my vacation I traveled 120 mil is more useful and common
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
Oh no, over here a mil is 1/1000 of an inch, haha
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Comes up a literal metric ass load (8 bushels) when your talking about travel in the USA.
We big
squaresinger@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Car mileage (or kilometerage, is that a word?)
People don’t say the car has 200 megameter on the odometer, but 200 000 km. Or 200k km?..
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 16 hours ago
In Sweden we say 20 000 mil. I always have to stop for a second to convert when people use km.
logi@piefed.world 4 hours ago
You should consider adopting metric and avoid these conversion steps.
Tyr_Raidho_Othala@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Make it a gigameter for my 1000 megameter needs
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
The only bad thing about metric is that billionaires technically do have giga dollars.