Because there are too many standards[0]! If only someone would invent one more standard that everyone could follow... The Wikipedia on long and short scales[1]

Because there are too many standards[0]! If only someone would invent one more standard that everyone could follow... The Wikipedia on long and short scales[1][2] for the root of the problem. [0] https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales [2] https://grammarhow.com/m-vs-mm-million/ https://grammarhow.com/m-vs-mm-million/