why don't people say mega meters - Lemmy.World
How come people say 5,000 km and not 5 Mm?
why not just say millions of meters or Mega meters?
Familiarity I guess. Mega isn’t really a widely used prefix outside of computers. We even say tons instead of megagrams.
megaton, megawatt, megapascal, megacandela (for military flares), megahertz, megajoule, megaohm, megabequerel