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Agreed, I can think of lots of use cases that come up in day to day life: - decade - century - decagon - centimeter - decimal system - decathlon - centip
by chrisshroba 4y ago
Agreed, I can think of lots of use cases that come up in day to day life:
- decade
- century
- decagon
- centimeter
- decimal system
- decathlon
- centipede
edit: admittedly, hecto is pretty rare and centi is often used for both 1/100 and 100
- idiotsecant 4y agoah yes, the centipede. Famously the unit of measure of one hundred pedes.
- throwaway821909 4y agowell... yes? > Centipedes (from New Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot")
- GuB-42 4y agoThe hectopascal is the most common unit for atmospheric pressure. It replaced the equivalent millibar to match SI units. Standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1013 hPa. Hectolitres are commonly used in the food and drink industry. For example wineries and breweries typically measure their production in hectolitres. Not exactly hecto but land, especially farm land is often measured in hectares. It is a non-SI metric unit equivalent to the square hectometer or 10000 square meters. We most likely kept the name because "hectare" sounds better than "square hectometer". As expected, 1 hectare is worth 100 ares, but ares and its other multiples are much less used than hectares.
- bruce511 4y agoAres is 100 Square metres. Not to be confused with acres, which is around 4047 Square metres. 2471 acres per hectare.
- InitialLastName 4y agoSo you're saying there are roughly 2.5 hectacres per hectare.