• python@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    People will say “one thousand kilometers”

    Will they though? I don’t talk about distances that large anywhere near often enough to really need a shorthand for it, personally. Had to even look up what things are approximately 1000km apart to even know what to imagine it as (it’s about the distance between Paris and Berlin).

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      5 hours ago

      Sweden is quite long, so talking about traveling>1 000 km is not uncommon, but here we have mil, which is equal to 10 km. So on my vacation I traveled 120 mil is more useful and common

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      12 hours ago

      Yes, every time I’ve ever heard someone use metric to describe distances of >999km, they keep using kilometers.

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      10 hours ago

      Car mileage (or kilometerage, is that a word?)

      People don’t say the car has 200 megameter on the odometer, but 200 000 km. Or 200k km?..