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Yeah, he had me with him until I got to there.
Screw off telling people there's something wrong with using 10k km. It's widely accepted and far easier for normal people to understand. There are also plenty of scenarios where using a single, fixed unit (whether km or kg) is just better than using different units for different things.
At least scientific notation gives a clear numeric indication of scale. Even if you use the entire range of metric daily, you're taking half a second to compare any time there's mismatched units.
Yeah, it's not even a double prefix like the article implies. It's 10 with a suffix, and m with a prefix.
Also, no one outside of scientific papers is going to type the degree symbol for temperature because it's not a common feature of keyboards.
Of english keyboards. Which honestly annoys the hell out of me because I am very used to german keyboards which do have it, but I switched to UK layout at some point because I generally prefer it. It's like the one thing I miss.