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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> >> Liters are too big and centiliters are too small.
> > For what? And in cooking a deciliter is a very common measure.
> But it's four syllables long. :-)
In Finnish it's commonly abbreviated to "desi" in colloquial speech.
> >> Basically, the factor of 1000 in common units
> >> is the problem. :-)
> >
> > There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter, and 100 centimeter in a meter,
> > and 10 deciliters in a liter. What 1000?
> Grams to kilograms, for example.
One example. More examples?
> Hey, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying *I* find it inconvenient
> most of the time I'm in places that use metric. I'm just trying to
> explain stuff that might make someone resist using metric, as someone
> raised on imperial measurements who has spent months in countries where
> they use metric, is all.
Resistance to change, that's what it is. ;)
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- Warp
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