• @bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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    15 months ago

    When the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      25 months ago

      Even if they are used rarely, they are still named.

      So it is good to know they exist in order to explain the metric system.

      I was still taught them back in the day in Belgium.