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Hans Dembinski

5 Apr 2024 5 Apr '24

8:45 a.m.

[...] you're supposed to refer to these as "megameters"

As an educated physicist, I concur (*). Also, it's time that the general public finally uses kilo-, mega-, and gigadollars, to avoid the confusion what a "billion" means in different languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage (*) Actually, not even physicists use megameters for some reason, neither does anyone say megagrams... people are so inconsistent.

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Joaquín M López Muñoz

5 Apr 5 Apr

9:29 a.m.

New subject: Boost C++ in Australia

No dia 5 de abr. de 2024, às 10:45, Hans Dembinski via Boost escreveu:

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[...] you're supposed to refer to these as "megameters"

[…] (*) Actually, not even physicists use megameters for some reason, neither does anyone say megagrams... people are so inconsistent.

The latter may be influenced by the fact that the SI base unit for mass is kg, not g. Joaquín M López Muñoz

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Дмитрий Архипов

10:26 a.m.

New subject: Boost C++ in Australia

пт, 5 апр. 2024 г. в 11:45, Hans Dembinski via Boost :

Also, it's time that the general public finally uses kilo-, mega-, and gigadollars, to avoid the confusion what a "billion" means in different languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage

"Kilobucks" actually used to be a popular colloquialism in Russia.

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