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> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm". SI is such a senseless system. Unit prefixes were not a good idea.

> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm". SI is such a senseless system. Unit prefixes were not a good idea. Did you move the decimal point or just switch to "Mm?"

ben_w 2y ago
In that specific case, I chose megameters.
- sneak 2y ago
  At which point even metric-users who think in km are confused. Certain things are measured in certain units, prefix included. This would be like writing interstellar distances in km instead of light years or parsecs.