What customary unit of measure would you use to measure distance?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Depends on the context. Inter city distances in kilometres, distances around the house or garden in metres, smaller objects in centimetres.

Scientists or specialists would meause interstellar distances in light years or parsecs, accurate measures of day-to-day objects in millimetres, wavelenth of electromagnetic radiation in nanometres, etc.

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∙ 15y ago

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