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by khedoros 3714 days ago
Why not? It shows the relationship between itself and other metric units better than "tonne" does. It would start sounding natural if people started using it.
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Because "mega" is ambiguous. It can mean different things.
Can it? How so? As a unit prefix, I only know it to mean "a multiple of 10^6"