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.

  • FleetingTit@feddit.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    We use litres, which is one decimetre cubed. We use hectares, which is one hectometre squared. But the beauty of it is, that you can just convert everything to units that are more widely understood.

    • 1 decimetre = 10 centimetres = .1 metres

    • 1 hectometre = 100 metres = .1 kilometre

    • froh42@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hektoliter is common in Germany for measuring quantities of beer (not a single serving, of course, but when buying beer for some kind of venue or measuring the output of a brewery)