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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.
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
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.
Psst. You forgot the megameters.
How could I forget about the megameters???
Is Pi in metrics is 1.0?
It's quiche in metric.