Comment on legs to die for

• btr_fan87@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some quick googling tells me you’re the one who has them backwards.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  it’s extremely obvious that you’re incorrect if you simply look at the words, “centi” means “hundred” and is smaller than “milli” which means “thousand”.

  centipedes look like they have a hundred legs, millipedes look like they have a thousand legs.

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah, but millimeters are 1/1000 of a meter, which means millipedes actually have 1/1000 of a leg /s

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    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      #kilopede

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Centipede” means 100 legs.

  “Millipede” means 1000 legs.

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  • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pede means feet. So does the pie in piedmont.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right, I meant feet. Fixed!

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      • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Phew because essentially* I was like

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        * essentially in no way whatsoever

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I am aware of how prefixes work

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In this case it’s what the prefixes mean that’s relevant.

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