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tomxor on July 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Longest Lines of Sight on Earth

And it's only from 5.971 m high... why people use decimals to indicate 3 orders of magnitude I will never understand... either that or they got the wrong SI unit.

mauvehaus on July 27, 2017 [–]

Possibly because they're not (natively?) English-speaking Europeans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Digit_grouping

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