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.
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.
Europe uses cl, ml and dl. A can of coca Cola is 33 ml, a shot is 2 cl. Then you switch to litres at 0.5l.
We also use decilitre, but only in cooking, and I think most don’t think of it as 0.1 l, but rather just think of it as the size of a measuring cup, i.e. it has more in common with “1 cup of sugar” than with “0.5 liter of water” in terms of how you think about it. More abstract, if that makes sense.
A can is 330ml or 33cl.
All labeling is in ml right now. Recipes still often use cl/dl.
Metric is better by a thousand (double entendre).