Question, why do Europeans measure height in meters then centimeters(or just centimeters). It seems to make more sense to use decimeters then centimeters. Just one of those traditional things?
As someone else said, decimeters aren’t actually used by anyone. In fact, other than centimetres and decibels, I can’t think of any commonly-used unit that uses a prefix that isn’t a power of 1000. (kilo, mega, milli, micro, etc. are all powers of 1000)
Hadn’t heard of that - neither the unit nor the prefix. Turns out the prefix is actually hecto meaning 100, and are isn’t a commonly used unit. Thanks for that!
Here’s my favorite German boomer humor, because it’s just so crude:
Verbatim translated, it says: Love fades, hectare stays.
Basically, it’s saying you should marry someone not for love, but rather for how many hectare of farmland they have, because in a long marriage, you’ll supposedly benefit more from the latter.
As someone else said, decimeters aren’t actually used by anyone.
Tell that to the Austrians. You can easily spot Austrian recipes and sizes by the use of dL and dm. In most of the rest of Europe you’d be right. Also maybe only older Austrians use it more frequently.
Yeah, basically habit of using two digits precision whenever the meter is too big. Conveniently, the first two digits are centimeters. This comic is weird because our dude is using centimeters above 100 and adds millimeters and 10th milimeters to his length, must have been bald shaved at a precision doctor to get these numbers.
Question, why do Europeans measure height in meters then centimeters(or just centimeters). It seems to make more sense to use decimeters then centimeters. Just one of those traditional things?
As someone else said, decimeters aren’t actually used by anyone. In fact, other than centimetres and decibels, I can’t think of any commonly-used unit that uses a prefix that isn’t a power of 1000. (kilo, mega, milli, micro, etc. are all powers of 1000)
Hecto-. Hectare.
Hadn’t heard of that - neither the unit nor the prefix. Turns out the prefix is actually hecto meaning 100, and are isn’t a commonly used unit. Thanks for that!
Used in agriculture. Are sometimes also called hundred/sotka. There is also deca- prefix.
We use it in Canada for land size
Buying a house/zoning will have you come across it
Here’s my favorite German boomer humor, because it’s just so crude:
Verbatim translated, it says: Love fades, hectare stays.
Basically, it’s saying you should marry someone not for love, but rather for how many hectare of farmland they have, because in a long marriage, you’ll supposedly benefit more from the latter.
Beer in hectoliters, and for some reason Austrians measure foods in dekagrams.
Tell that to the Austrians. You can easily spot Austrian recipes and sizes by the use of dL and dm. In most of the rest of Europe you’d be right. Also maybe only older Austrians use it more frequently.
I’m trying to think of anything measured in decimeters.
M / cm It’s such a large difference in length you’d think decimeters would make sense.
You just shuffle zeroes
It’s not needed, because converting between them takes no effort.
If someone tells you “50 centimeter”, you’ll know immediately that it’s 5 decimeter or 0.5 meter.
Liter
Yeah, basically habit of using two digits precision whenever the meter is too big. Conveniently, the first two digits are centimeters. This comic is weird because our dude is using centimeters above 100 and adds millimeters and 10th milimeters to his length, must have been bald shaved at a precision doctor to get these numbers.