2012/6/16 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>:
>
> You are quite right, I don't know how I got that wrong.
> Except that hecto and centi are _not_ prefixes in the SI system.
>

Could be, I do not know for sure...

BTW the metric vs imperial systems and UK being somewhere inbetween
(litres from metric system and miles from imperial), I just remembered
one interesting moment from a metrology class:
In whole mainland Europe screw threads are metric, pipe threads are in
imperial units. Which does not make much of a sense to me, why would
they be separated, but then professor mentioned that pipe threads in
UK are not imperial (I _think_ that screw threads are imperial in
UK)...
So I think that pipe thread in UK has to be metric, which makes me
think that English people are doing this on purpose :))

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