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How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?

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[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

We already have this in Sweden. 10km in Sweden is 1 mil (Swedish mile).

When we sell/buy used cars and other types of vehicles we always count the mileage in Swedish miles.

Kilometers work but is just absurd when you start talking about 100k+ kms.

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