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0 pointslambdaxyzw1y ago0 comments

That's actually a good question. Why? We have nanometets, picometers, centimeters, decimeters, kilometers, why not megameters?

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ragebol1y ago

I wonder why too. Same for weights: why have a ton (1000/kilo kilograms) if you can have a megagram (which is the weight of 1 cubic meter of water at the right conditions)

The only 'commonly' used unit of measure larger than a kilometer is a light year, at least that I can think of. Maybe a Astronomical Unit, but not 'common' I suppose.

jagger271y ago

I think in terms of things commonly measured on Earth we don't benefit much from the jump to megametres. The diameter of this planet is 12,742 km. Does it help much to say 12.7 megametres? Not really. Off planet the distances between objects are far beyond megametres. AU, parsec, and lightyears make much more sense.

calgoo1y ago

In Sweden, a mile is 10km, not 1.6… so there are other measures that exist, just not in all countries.

datadrivenangel1y ago

The mile is larger than a kilometer.

But it shouldn't be common.

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