joel_feila@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agowhy don't people say mega metersmessage-squaremessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1174arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1message-squarewhy don't people say mega metersjoel_feila@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoI’ve always found that strange. I guess a kilogram is a lot closer to “human scale” than a gram, maybe that’s why they picked it.
minus-squarejoel_feila@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoyeah humans do really need a small, inch and cm, a medium, meter and feet, and a big, mile and km.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·8 months agoSI also does meter instead of cm, so it overall checks out.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·8 months agoHaving meter as a base unit makes more sense than kg because meter lacks any prefix.
minus-squareAatube@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoBut that is like a giant difference in what they usually measure
I’ve always found that strange. I guess a kilogram is a lot closer to “human scale” than a gram, maybe that’s why they picked it.
yeah humans do really need a small, inch and cm, a medium, meter and feet, and a big, mile and km.
SI also does meter instead of cm, so it overall checks out.
Having meter as a base unit makes more sense than kg because meter lacks any prefix.
But that is like a giant difference in what they usually measure