Talk:1 E+6 m²

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"# A cube of this area has a size of 408 m." What part of such a cube measures 1 square kilometer and what part is 408 meteres?

my guesss is that it's surface area, and my calcultor confirms that:

1km^2 - surface area
1/6 = 0.1666 - surface area of each side
0.408 = sq root of 0.166 , hence side of the cube

I like the square kilometer equivalence subsection to the comparisons list. This would be a useful format to use for the other orders of mag articles whenever a useful unit falls within their range. --mav

What does "E6" stand for? -Branddobbe 00:50, Mar 13, 2004 (UTC)

Suggest this page be removed. The E6 notation means a million in FORTRAN, but C tends to use the lower case "e" and, anyway, the page seems to be mostly silliness. Pdn 05:38, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I oppose the removal of this page (as a whole). What exactly was your proposal? --romanm (talk) 14:36, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

RE: What does "E6" stand for? - "E" in this context refers to Exponentiation. --СђrΐsτσρhΞr ScЋδlτξη 17:24, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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"km²" means square kilometre and not kilo–square metre. For example, 3 km² is equal to 3 000 000 m² and not to 3000 m² (nor even 9 000 000 m²). Thus, in the case of an area, the SI prefixes provide steps of a factor one million instead of one thousand

Eagle talk 22:47, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why the weird name?

Why not write "1 km²"? That is the more likely search term, surely. Either that or explain the E thing. There are several of these 1 E+-n pages on Wiki and none of them explain the obscure scientific term. I took me quite a while to figure out what on earth it meant on the 1 E+4 m² page which I accessed from How to edit a page (under superscripts). Jubilee♫clipman 23:03, 11 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]