Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?

mrmule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• H4mi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And hectograms. We just shorten it to ”hekto” though. It’s how we buy stuff from the deli. ”2 hekto salami please”.

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The silly Austrians would ask for “20 Deka Salami, bitte.” It’s weird.

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• LostGuide@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sweden also uses mil for distance, which is 10^4 meters (10 km)

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• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sweden is also the only country in the world to have a sensible use of the word ‘miles’ (or ‘mil’ in Swedish):

  10km = 1 mil

  They use this a lot when speaking of travel distances longer than 20km.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In Canada anything over 20km is referenced as time. “it’s about an hour drive”

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