Tony,

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:03:22 +1000, Tony Smith wrote:

> > > Wot, no love for decimetre & decametre either?
> > 
> > We have them in Italy too :)
> 
> 
> You poor souls!  I figured there was one for 100 metres as well - and tada -
> the hectometre. (Obvious in hindsight.)

Well it is used for areas: the hectare is a square hectometre (100m x 100m for those who prefer number to words! :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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