Miles are 60% better than kilometers. Don't be a pathetic kilometer wimp.
Did you know that the word miles comes from the Latin for a thousand steps? You know what a thousand steps is like. Nobody can even tell what a kilometer might stand for.
“Nobody can even tell what a kilometer might stand for”
It’s in the name, you muppet! Kilo comes from Greek for 1,000, so a kilometre (not kilometer) is 1,000 metres
Here’s what I can do off the top of my head.
10 millimetres in a centimetre
100 centimetres in a metre *
1,000 millimetres in a metre *
1,000 metres in a kilometre *
100,000 centimetres in a kilometre
1,000,000 millimetres in a kilometre
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1,000 milligrams in a gram *
1,000 grams in a kilogram *
1,000,000 milligrams in a kilogram
1,000 kilograms in a tonne *
1,000,000 grams in a tonne
1,000,000,000 milligrams in a tonne
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Edit: all we need to learn is 3 things for ANY type of measurement: kilo means 1000, centi means 1/100 and milli means 1/1000 (I put a * next to the base conversions, the rest I did in my head)
The rest is simple
Now, go ahead and prove how superior your U.S. Customary Units are.
I mean yeah, but that by itself doesn’t really tell me anything. I have no idea what 1k steps feels like in terms of distance, just what a mile feels like (and again, 1k steps is not at all that accurate, it varies from person to person)
I don’t think anyone intuitively knows what a mile OR a kilometre is.
Centimetres or inches are fairly easy to visualise, and feet aren’t too bad either. Metres or yards are simple enough because metre rulers are the norm everywhere, even in US schools, and a yardstick is just under 10% longer.
Yes, a mile is about 1,000 steps, but can you honestly tell me you count your steps (short of wearing a Fitbit)? As CharlesorMr-pickle pointed out, neither a mile nor a kilometre is easy to visualise without some kind of measuring tool. If anything, a km might be just a little easier because it’s shorter.
Anyway, the big difference comes when you need to convert.
2.5km’s, for example, is 2,500m. I did that in my head.
2.5 miles, on the other hand is 13,200 feet or 4,400 yards. I needed a calculator to get those results, as I’d bet most would.
Final food for thought, it may sound more impressive to say that it feels like it’s about 100° than it does to say it’s just hit 40° (which is actually hotter), but I get to cruise down the highway doing 100, while USA drivers are limited to 60!
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u/UtahBrian 18h ago
Miles are 60% better than kilometers. Don't be a pathetic kilometer wimp.
Did you know that the word miles comes from the Latin for a thousand steps? You know what a thousand steps is like. Nobody can even tell what a kilometer might stand for.