Units

["Björn Cedervall" <bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com>]

>	As mentioned, deca is not abbreviated.
We have deciliters in Sweden (especially in the cuisine business, like 
in recipes: sugar, milk and flour. For unknown reason margarine usually 
comes in grams).

>  Hecto
is widely used here (candy is often price labeled by the
hecto = 100 grams here) and various food stuffs like ground meat is 
often measured in hectos. But I know, we are a small population and 
would not encourage this to be spread to other countries. I think it is 
more important to handle 37/64 of an inch and similar measurements 
(while struggling with cubic feet etc many years ago, I learned that 
"cc" stands for Canadian Club, at least in B.C., Canada).

bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com

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