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Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t". Yes, that's easily confused with th
by sonofgod 8y ago
Can't speak for all metric users, but I found "mt" for metric tonnes just confusing; the standard abbreviation is just "t".
Yes, that's easily confused with the imperial ton, but I think that's a less important problem.
- Gibbon1 8y agoThe other thing is the difference between a metric and US ton is only 10%. So you don't lose any sense of scale if you confuse the two.
- tjoff 8y agoOh, had no idea that was what mt meant. I feel kg would be a better anyway. Other than that, neat!
- mveety 8y agoI agree. I thought this was megatons and thought “oh wow those emissions seems a bit high.” Took me a minute to see my mistake.
- yellowapple 8y agoI feel like a lot of confusion could be bypassed entirely by using megagrams (Mg) instead.
- navane 8y agoThe only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.
- souprock 8y agoThe "metric ton" is really just the megagram, with standard abbreviation Mg.