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minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoWhen the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoEven if they are used rarely, they are still named. So it is good to know they exist in order to explain the metric system. I was still taught them back in the day in Belgium.
When the metric system was introduced in the UK, the schools taught decimeters, decameters and hectometers, not knowing that no one would ever bother with those.
Even if they are used rarely, they are still named.
So it is good to know they exist in order to explain the metric system.
I was still taught them back in the day in Belgium.