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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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why don't people say mega meters (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Scientific notation for everything: 5 x 10^6 m. Seriously though, I think it would be easier to think about it in megameters or gigameters if it were more standard to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can we do 5E6 like on the calculators? Is that common enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yeah but sadly not enough people know how to read that. sadface.