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[–] 6 points 6 days ago (10 children)

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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    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    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?".

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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?

    He also said ordering meat by the gram at the counter sounds super posh and overly precise to him, while it's just normal for me, very cool!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Ah yes "Micro" Soft. Bill there named the company after himself.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    yeah i suppose a 25.4 millimeter long dick would sound bigger than 1 inch huh

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Jokes on you. I'm into 3D printing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    It is .0000451 exocelsius outside.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    That's not the metric system

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  • [–] -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 95 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Look at that hourglass figure

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    [–] 59 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    I think I can see a tiddy or two in that number curve

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