That’s true in theory, but if you talk about megameters to a European you’ll get very weird looks.
An engineer will understand what you mean, but still laugh at you.
But it’s a non-issue for anything on earth, where you’ll have 40.000 kilometers at most. Not a lot of time is spent talking about x thousand kilometer.
Any notion that a kilometer is “too small” is laughable.
Kilometers aren’t the biggest measurement in metric though.
It goes: Kilometer x1000= Megameter x1000= Gigameter x1000= Terameter. A Terameter is about 1012 meter
Just as it goes smaller like: Milimeter /1000= Micrometer /1000= Nanometer /1000= Picometer
And even those are still not the biggest or smallest measurements possible in metric.
That’s true in theory, but if you talk about megameters to a European you’ll get very weird looks.
An engineer will understand what you mean, but still laugh at you.
But it’s a non-issue for anything on earth, where you’ll have 40.000 kilometers at most. Not a lot of time is spent talking about x thousand kilometer.
Any notion that a kilometer is “too small” is laughable.