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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool stuff. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is much easier to remember that an Astronomical Unit is 150 gigameters than 1.5 x 10^8 kilometers

Is learning prefixes easier than remembering exponents?

Coming from someone who only uses metric, I find the opposite and only use meters and exponents.

Speed of light: 3 x 10^8 m/s

1 AU: 1.5 x 10^11 m

etc.

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