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?
It’s pretty much the least used SI prefix. Apparently used somewhat frequently in central Europe for “decagrams” (10s of grams)
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.
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.
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?”.
Yeah, us too, just in good Hungarian fashion, that whole sentence is one word.
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!
Decimeter is used often enough.
All of these can be used with any measure, and that’s the point.
Yeah deci is familiar, but deka I haven’t seen.
Of course they can, but its still noticeable that one is way rarer so I got curious where it might be in common use.
Dekagram of cocaine
Decagram is used in centeal europe for cooking and groceries, but otherwise probably unused.
yeah i suppose a 25.4 millimeter long dick would sound bigger than 1 inch huh
Jokes on you. I’m into 3D printing.
It is .0000451 exocelsius outside.
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.
That’s not the metric system
What do you think the metric system is?
A set of standard units AND the prefix system
The prefixes can be and are used for anything including non metric units. Americans use the prefixes all the time.
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.
That’s because duodecimal is a great system and superior to decimalization.
I think that’s more because Canada and the U.S. developed wood sizes for building while using the foot as a measurement. I doubt they would have made 2 x 4s a thing if they were using metric.
You can eyeball the .333 mm and be fine
Look at that hourglass figure
O O
Now do the same with US customary units. Let’s see what their hourglass looks like 🫠
It’s the negative space between two soapy titties.
I think I can see a tiddy or two in that number curve
I’m not 100% sure on the accuracy of this data, but if ever there was a place to paste this information, it is here.
Average Tiddy weight per boob by cup size, in Metric and Lemmy scales
A cup = 0.454kg = 1.1 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
B cup = 0.78kg =1.9 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
C cup = 1.023kg = 2.4 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
D cup = 1.388kg = 3.3 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
E cup = 1.950kg = 4.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
F cup = 2.35kg = 5.6 Tins of Heinz Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce
[Edit] I’m not sure if this is per boob, or per pair of boobs. More research required.
Omg we’ve been cursed by big tiddy
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Booblaess?
!5318008
BOOBLESS
GOD I FUCKING HOPE SO
Is. It. SOAPY?
We’re not asleep we’re just depressed!
That’s because of sleep deprivation!
repress your depression!
Deka and Hecto are the metric system’s unloved children
Hecto used to be popular in sweden until like 2000 or so, when it came to food. Especially candy and charcuterie were priced and ordered in “hekto” (the “gram” dropped in speech).
In Hungary “dekagram” is the default unit when buying food from actual humans at a deli counter or market. Asking for 30 deka of cheese sounds like a more human-scale number than asking for 300 grams.
Though it’s interesting that hecto would be even better for this, as we always use deka in 10s (or at least 5s), so we could just ask for 3 hectograms of cheese for an even more human-scale number :)
That’s pretty cool. Makes me think about speaking in ounces locally (NL). “3 ounce of cheese please” will get you 300g. They could ask if they cut it too fat: “mag het een onsje meer zijn?”/“Is it ok if it’s a small ounce more?”
Hecto is very used in Italy with food “I’d like 3 hectos of ham, sir”
Deka is too small to be useful tbh, maybe it’s used with medicines or drugs?
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
She’ll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kersone!
Metric haters when they realize their electricity is measured in Volts (metric unit), not in “relatable” units like Sparks:
Last night was so hot, my ac took three sparks per witchburn!
Hey hey, US customary units are metric:
The majority of U.S. customary units were redefined in terms of the meter and kilogram with the Mendenhall Order of 1893 and, in practice, for many years before.
They just use weird provincial conversion factors, that’s all.
They could be more metric. Just imagine this wonderful reality:
- 1 inch = 2,5cm
- -> 1 hand = 10cm
- 1 foot = 30cm
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
- 1 pound = 500g = ½kg
- 1 thou = 25μm
Funny thing is here in the Netherlands some people use pounds and ounces ( pond and ons in Dutch ) when they buy meat at the butcher. 1 pond = 500 gram, 1 ons = 100 gram
- 1 yard = 1 m (=3ft+1hd)
Oh yeah, that’ll be fine, I’m sure it will make everything simpler:
1km = 1000yd + 1000hd = 1111yd + 1hdWhat could possibly go wrong.
1 slug = ... ?I redefined 1yd as 1m so 1km = 1000yd = 1kyd
1000 yd = 3000ft + 1000hd = 3333ft + 1hd
I think the inch-feet conversion is used more often than the feet-yard conversion, so I kept the 12:1 and broke the 3:1
lmaooooooo
Yes please. I have no fucking IDEA what a mile is. What’s a yard. A foot. Make it make sense
A miles is a furlong squared.
x2
A yard is almost the same as a metre. That one’s easy :)
A mile is a 1000 paces walked, counting only one foot in most places. Different countries take different steps so a mile is different in each country. Somewhere between 1.5 and 2 kilometer is the most common.
A yard is almost one meter, so I’ll allow it.
It makes sense for a system where you want to easily divide quantities and only can work with the fingers on one hand.
Such a satisfying system
