Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?
Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?
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.
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in school in austria we teach dezimeter (tenth of a meter)
decimeter is a good measure because one cubic decimeter (1 dm³) equals one liter ( 1L )
*of water
1 cubic decimeter = 1 liter. Period.
No, you're thinking of a kilogram. A liter and 1dm³ are identical.
Haha obviously, too early in the morning ;)
1dm^3
Ah jeez, thank you. Fixed it.
No, volume dimensions are independent of what a specific volume is filled with.
1 liter of water is 1 cubic decimeter of water just as 1 liter of air is 1 cubic decimeter of air.
I'm a chemistry teacher so I regularly use dm³
Isn't that just a liter?
*Austria
*the decimeter/decimetre
moving either "in schools" or "in Austria" to the end would also create a more pleasant to read sentence
Decimeter is used in older American botany books for some reason. Only place I've ever seen it