And lo on Sat, 24 May 2008 00:08:48 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> did  
spake, saying:

> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> A cm is about right. You need something about a foot, tho. Otherwise you
>> get things like "he was 197 cm tall".

or "just under 2 metres"

>> Kilograms are too heavy and grams are too light.
>
>   Too heavy and light for what? It's very common to buy eg. "400 grams of
> meat", etc.

And nothing to stop you asking for 4 hectograms of meat, well except the  
fact that nobody would understand you :-)

>> Liters are too big and centiliters are too small.
>
>   For what? And in cooking a deciliter is a very common measure.
>
>> 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.

Important not to be confused with a decalitre.

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Phil Cook

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