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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Your little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason

I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se

[–] Threeme2189@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Never said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

It is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it's harder to make a mistake