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?
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I do wish we metric places (or at least Canada) were more flexible and familiar with the whole system. Sure we have milliliters and centimeters and kilograms, but people say things all the time like 2000km or 2 million kgs, or even things like 25000mAh. And I get it, people get into a frame of reference and want to stay there, but I wish people had the agility and practice to say 2 megameters, 2 gigagrams, and, well 25 amp hours, and still be understood. That last one's not hard, but packaging still seems to be stupid about it.
yeah i suppose a 25.4 millimeter long dick would sound bigger than 1 inch huh
It is .0000451 exocelsius outside.
Celsius isn't actually metric, per say. Its based on the freezing point of water while farenheight is based on the freezing point of mercury.
Celcius is what most of the world used because 0 is where water freezes and is very relevant to the human condition, hence why its the most used.
It was adopted as part of the metric SI system but unlike all the units developed for metric which actually use the above scale, I do not believe there is any practical use for this with celcius.
Kelvin does use this however.
That's not the metric system
What do you think the metric system is?
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I really like the foot. It's great because you can divide it by 2, 3 and 4 and even 6 and it still works. I think it's a lot better to use than the metric system when working with wood.
That's because duodecimal is a great system and superior to decimalization.
I think that's more because Canada and the U.S. developed wood sizes for building while using the foot as a measurement. I doubt they would have made 2 x 4s a thing if they were using metric.
Look at that hourglass figure
I think I can see a tiddy or two in that number curve
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