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minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down5·23 hours ago 15.7 billion miles (168 AU) Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoThough AU is a pretty legitimate term if you don’t want to be going in Tera - Giga territory. I’d assume astronomers other than in the US also use it.
minus-squareEzTerry@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·22 hours agoTo be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun. But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down2·edit-210 hours ago But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters. You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good. 25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers. Easy as pie. Edit: Ahh crap, I forgot about megameters. It comes out to 25,100,000,000 km. Sorry for the metric ton of confusion.
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·11 hours agoIdk what these imperialist donkeys are talking about. 1 terameter is 10^6 kilometers. You’re spot on.
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoThanks for the support, but I was indeed mistaken.
minus-squareDevjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoOhh, now I see it. The typo at the bottom. Missed that.
minus-squareThebular@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·13 hours agoYou’re missing a few zeroes there I think
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 hours agoYour little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoNever said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoIt is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it’s harder to make a mistake
minus-squareThreeme2189@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoHow could I forget about the megameters???
minus-squareSimulation6@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·12 hours agoIs Pi in metrics is 1.0?
minus-squareWolf314159@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·22 hours agoAt that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.
Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.
Though AU is a pretty legitimate term if you don’t want to be going in Tera - Giga territory.
I’d assume astronomers other than in the US also use it.
To be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun.
But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good.
25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers.
Easy as pie.
Edit: Ahh crap, I forgot about megameters. It comes out to 25,100,000,000 km. Sorry for the metric ton of confusion.
Idk what these imperialist donkeys are talking about. 1 terameter is 10^6 kilometers. You’re spot on.
Thanks for the support, but I was indeed mistaken.
Ohh, now I see it. The typo at the bottom. Missed that.
You’re missing a few zeroes there I think
Just a few 😉
Your little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason
I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se
Never said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.
It is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it’s harder to make a mistake
Psst. You forgot the megameters.
How could I forget about the megameters???
Is Pi in metrics is 1.0?
It’s quiche in metric.
At that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.