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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by idiotsecant on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:38PM (#33663560)
ah yes, the centipede. Famously the unit of measure of one hundred pedes.
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by throwaway821909 on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:50PM (#33666295)
well... yes?

> Centipedes (from New Latin centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, "foot")

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