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| In one way, these (metres and km2 pages) are a perfect analogy to the pages for years (1876) and dates (November 20). |
| It is almost impossible to find a case where it is natural to link directly to 1e4 metres or 1000km2. |
| On the scale of things (1360 words) |
| In a nanosecond, light travels 0.299792458 metres; this is quite respectably approximated by various cultures' archaic units based on the length of an adult man's foot. |
| A pendulum of length 0.248 metres at the Earth's surface swings with a period of one second. |
| The Sun is about 0.28 zetta metres (30 kilo light years) from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy; objects up to ten times as far from the centre (and inwards to about a third as far) orbit at the same speed as The Sun (so with orbital periods proportional to radius). |
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