Dekagram of cocaine
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Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
Centi is familiar to everyone from centi-meter, I have deci in deci-Bel for my optical signals at work, and I know hecto is used for hecto-Pascal which replaced the milli-bar. But I can’t think of one for deka, can anyone give an example of a unit where deka is used often?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Decagram is used in centeal europe for cooking and groceries, but otherwise probably unused.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
It’s pretty much the least used SI prefix. Apparently used somewhat frequently in central Europe for “decagrams” (10s of grams)
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Interesting, thanks. It’s not familiar to me in my South-Western corner of central Europe. I’ll have to ask my Czech friend if it’s familiar to him.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Am from Hungary, can confirm, all recipes say decagram here.
It also makes sense in a way, you usually don’t eat either kilograms or grams of anything really.
Like you go to the butcher and you won’t ask for 213 grams of meat, or 5 kilos, you ask for 15 decagrams.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Thank you for the datapoint! Exactly like my Czech friend said as well.
It makes a lot of sense to me, that you would put a floor on the precision like that.
We often have the question at the counter, like “It’s a few grams over, is that still okay, or should I take some off?”.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
He got back to me really fast. He says yes!
Yes, you go to shop. To buy a ham for example. And here you fully just say: “10 deka of this”
He also gave me this song text (Michal Tučný - Prodavač with the chorus at 0:41):
Pět deka, deset deka, dvacet deka, třicet deka, kilo chleba, kilo cukru, jeden rohlík, jedna veka, všechno máme, co kdo chcete, obchod kvete, jen si račte říct. Čtyři kila, deset kilo, dvacet kilo, třicet kilo, navážíme, zabalíme, klaníme se, to by bylo, prosím pěkně, mohu nechat o jedenáct deka víc?