Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?
I've learned about them in school, but I've never heard anyone say something is 8 decameters long or anything like that. I'm an American.
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I've learned about them in school, but I've never heard anyone say something is 8 decameters long or anything like that. I'm an American.
Sweden uses decimeters and deciliters
And hectograms. We just shorten it to ”hekto” though. It’s how we buy stuff from the deli. ”2 hekto salami please”.
The silly Austrians would ask for "20 Deka Salami, bitte." It's weird.
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.
In Canada anything over 20km is referenced as time. "it's about an hour drive"
Sweden also uses mil for distance, which is 10^4 meters (10 km)