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Despite being metric, Celsius is barely used with a prefix when describing temps high enough to warrant it (lemmy.world)

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[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.