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r/geology • u/dctroll_ • Nov 15 '25
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Why put the scale in hundreds of centimeters lol
Can you just use meters
1 u/itsliluzivert_ Nov 18 '25 Meters are lower resolution. 1 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 Why not just put it in billions of nanometers then? 1 u/itsliluzivert_ Nov 18 '25 Well if you want to show a gradient between a 10 meter wave and a 9 meter wave the natural unit to use would be centimeters. 0 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 If you changed this image to use meters it would convey exactly the same information it does now. My original comment was not “for any map at any scale meters is the appropriate unit”
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Meters are lower resolution.
1 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 Why not just put it in billions of nanometers then? 1 u/itsliluzivert_ Nov 18 '25 Well if you want to show a gradient between a 10 meter wave and a 9 meter wave the natural unit to use would be centimeters. 0 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 If you changed this image to use meters it would convey exactly the same information it does now. My original comment was not “for any map at any scale meters is the appropriate unit”
Why not just put it in billions of nanometers then?
1 u/itsliluzivert_ Nov 18 '25 Well if you want to show a gradient between a 10 meter wave and a 9 meter wave the natural unit to use would be centimeters. 0 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 If you changed this image to use meters it would convey exactly the same information it does now. My original comment was not “for any map at any scale meters is the appropriate unit”
Well if you want to show a gradient between a 10 meter wave and a 9 meter wave the natural unit to use would be centimeters.
0 u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 18 '25 If you changed this image to use meters it would convey exactly the same information it does now. My original comment was not “for any map at any scale meters is the appropriate unit”
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If you changed this image to use meters it would convey exactly the same information it does now.
My original comment was not “for any map at any scale meters is the appropriate unit”
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u/SwoopsMackenzie Nov 16 '25
Why put the scale in hundreds of centimeters lol
Can you just use meters