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Either one is fine. But depending on what you're measuring, one of them will give you

a convenient number, and the other one will give you an awkward number.

Examples:

The length of a small paperclip: 30 millimeters, 0.000003 kilometer

The length of a major city block: 1,609,344 millimeters, 1.61 kilometers

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