Langehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agoDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itmessage-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down115
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itLangehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareBehindTheBarrierlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoIt’s probably more common that scientific notation is used. So 3.2 *10^4 or simply 3.2e4. From the little physics I had, you often used kilometers instead of something like megameters. Or used just lightyears when you got on a big enough scale.
It’s probably more common that scientific notation is used. So 3.2 *10^4 or simply 3.2e4. From the little physics I had, you often used kilometers instead of something like megameters. Or used just lightyears when you got on a big enough scale.