why don't people say mega meters

joel_feila@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 164 points –

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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And yet we say megatons.

But only in regards of nuclear bombs. Maybe it's because of the scientific origins of these fields. Probably the same reasons why Americans measure firearm munition in mm.

But only in regards of nuclear bombs.

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we do list volcanic eruptions in megatons of TNT. The makers of the first a bomb pick it since the largest explosion ever made by then was a ship full explosives and some had calculated how many tons of TNT that ship was carrying

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