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by IsTom 652 days ago
> 6 tons of wheat 6000 kg of wheat

Why not 6 Mg of wheat?

3 comments

6 Mg is technically correct and it has the advantage that 1 tonne (or metric ton) = 1 Mg exactly, so it's just a simple substitution of words without changing numbers.

At that point in the article, I wanted to ease the reader into the metric system and not introduce too many new concepts all at once.

Because clearly nobody would understand it.
Because 6 magnesium of wheat doesn't make any sense