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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by WastingMyTime89 on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:47PM (#33663755)
Are you American by chance? Because I can assure you that centimetres are everywhere here and both hectolitres and centilitres are fairly common, not to talk about decibel.
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by InitialLastName on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:30PM (#33674331)
decibel is a bit of a special case, as that is essentially the only form anyone uses (I operate in a world that is decibel-heavy and I can't remember ever having seen a bel in the wild).
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