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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And yet the cowards refuse to use megagrams. If SI prefixes are so great use them consistently rather than stealing other unit names and giving them another definition.

Also metric byte sizes deserve the fires of hell. Powers of 2 or get out.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    We don't use mega grams because kilo is the SI unit. And there's no such thing as metric byte. That's the sales department finding out that 104 MB is a larger number than 100 MiB.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    In SI units a megagram would be equal to 1000 kilograms, because that's how SI unit prefixes work. Except we call it a tonne instead, which I believe is what the original commenter is referencing.

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