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Brewers introduced me to this with hectolitres

• darkwater 3y ago
  Hectolitres and hectograms are used fairly often (the latter, daily) in Italian, for example.
  • walthamstow 3y ago
    Hectolitre is 100 litres, not 100ml, but hectogram is 100g, not 100kg? Very confusing!
    • mort96 3y ago
      I mean Hecto = 100 Hectoliter = 100 litres Hectogram = 100 grams Kilo = 1000 Kiloliter = 1000 litres Kilogram = 1000 grams It doesn't look that confusing?
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    • jagger27 3y ago
      Well yeah, litres and grams are the base units. Just because 1ml is 1g of water doesn't change how SI prefixes work.
      • walthamstow 3y ago
        I would have thought if gram is the base unit for weight then millilitre is the base for volume, but I must be wrong