Langehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itmessage-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down116
arrow-up1123arrow-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 · 4 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareBehindTheBarrier@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-24 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.