• boboliosisjones@feddit.nu
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    13 hours ago

    In Scandinavia we have “mil” which everyone uses, 1 mil, or Scandinavian mile as it is known in English, is 10km. Cuts down ln zeroes. I love this but no one else(outside of Scandinavia) uses it.I typically get a lot of pushback mentioning it to my international peers.

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      5 hours ago

      Sweden and Norway only. Few people in Denmark know what a mil is. And virtually no one here uses it.

      Yeah-yeah; something something Denmark. I know…

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        9 hours ago

        Decameter is 10 meter, not 10 kilometer. 10km would be a myriadmeter. (SI prefix names are based on greek, and myriad is the greek-based name for 10 000).

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          8 hours ago

          i did correct myself like 3 minutes after posting

          but according to wikipedia there is no prefix for 10 000 in the SI system. only for 1 000 and 1 000 000