I’ve learned about them in school, but I’ve never heard anyone say something is 8 decameters long or anything like that. I’m an American.

  • Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It depends on the situation, sometimes they are really handy but most of the time we stick to kilo, centi and mili.

    Where i live, Hecto (100x) is used, for example to measure distances and areas for big properties. 1 hectometro equalls 100 m, or 1 hectarea (hm^2) equals 10000 m^2.

    Also, it is widely use for pressure, cause 1 atm is 1013 hPa

    Decameters are used but for special situations, like quantifying natural gas consumption