On 16 June 2012 21:25, Peter Blodow <p.blo...@dreki.de> wrote:

>> Except that hecto and centi are _not_ prefixes in the SI system.

> Yes they are. Hekto-, deka-, deci- and centi- (100, 10, 1/10, 1/100
> rsp.) are the only ones with the decimal exponents not being multiples
> of three,

Wikipedia seems to agree. I was certainly taught that it was improper
to use those prefixes though.

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