Langehund@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoDespite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant itmessage-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down19
arrow-up171arrow-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 · 6 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareBehindTheBarrier@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-26 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.