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rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I’m not so sure. But maybe you’re right. I thing I was confusing that with tonnage of a ship. But that’s a whole other concept and you can’t really confuse the two.

With the 1000 t thats only because kg is a stupid SI unit and leads to the whole debacle. If there wasn’t a prefix in the unit name itself, I think people would have started to use the SI unit prefixes correctly at some point instead of inventing and omitting other names to compensate.

I think I’ve heard things like megatonne. For example you can say your nuclear bomb has X megaton tnt equivalent.

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