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		billpg on May 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An old artifact kept in a vault outside Paris is n... It always feels a little grating when I hear someone say some number of "thousand kilometers".

bdamm on May 17, 2019 [–]

Yes, describing my old car's odometer as "250 megameters" is oddly satisfying to let roll of the tongue.

ineedasername on May 17, 2019 | [–]

I prefer to mix my references between metric & imperial: 1.55 deca-miles

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