minus-squaregimsy@feddit.ittoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•What has he done to deserve this?linkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoKm is 103m cm is 10-2m so the difference is 105 i.e. 100000 (one with 5 zeroes) Or more intuitively one centi-meter is a 1/100 of a meter and Kilo-Meter is 1000 meter therefore 100*1000 100000 It is quite intuitive, once you start using it What’s weird is why we don’t use Megameters and megagrams (i.e. one metric ton) linkfedilink
minus-squaregimsy@feddit.ittoMemes@lemmy.ml•Wait. I've seen this movielinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoFunghi linkfedilink
minus-squaregimsy@feddit.ittoMemes@lemmy.ml•Linkedinlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 months agoWell math might be, physics for sure isn’t linkfedilink
Km is 103m cm is 10-2m so the difference is 105 i.e. 100000 (one with 5 zeroes)
Or more intuitively one centi-meter is a 1/100 of a meter and Kilo-Meter is 1000 meter therefore 100*1000 100000
It is quite intuitive, once you start using it
What’s weird is why we don’t use Megameters and megagrams (i.e. one metric ton)