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It really irks me that journalists cannot make the slightest effort using proper units. Here I understand they meant 2Tm³ (terameter³).

Feel free to put in parenthesis the number of British buses or American football pitches, for the older folk from UK and USA if necessary.

But please use units that are universal and scientific!

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If you're going to be pedantic, please put in more effort in identifying the correct unit of measurement, whether it's feet, meters, leagues, or terameters.

A terameter is a unit of length equal to 1 trillion meters.

A cubic terameter is 1x10^36 cubic meters.

2 million cubic meters would be something like: .000000000000000000000000000002 cubic terameters

Or: 2e-30 terameter³

If you're wanting minimalconversion, the amount comes to 2 cubic hectometers.

Indeed. 2 million tonnes == 2Tg. 2 million metre³ == 2hm³. The unit in the article is "cubic tonne". I mixed the whole thing without thinking. This is maybe adding weight (what a pun) to my original point though. Using the proper unit at the source.

No matter how you parse it, it cannot be 2Tm³. The most generous reading would be "two trillion cubic metres" rather than two million. It could also be read to mean that you want to cube a terametre.

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