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And lo on Sat, 24 May 2008 00:08:48 +0100, Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> did
spake, saying:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> 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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