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>As a Swede I can make below list comlete:
>
>1 meter = 10 decimeter = 100 millimeter
                          ^^^  should be 1000, or 100 cm
>
>1000 meters = 1 kilometer
>10 kilometer = 1 "metric" mile
>
>\Lennart Sandelin
>
>If I remember from my 8th grade new math course 
>1=meter
>.1=decimeter
>.01=centimeter
>.001=millimeter
>
>
>1000=kilometer
>100=decameter
>10=???????? What's 10=
>1=meter
>.0=deci
>etc etc
>Jeff
>
10 is deka (da), but someone left off a zero for mm to meters.  Americans
can also understand metric, I use both systems all the time, but
anachronism can be sort of fun, don't you think? ;-)  Let's all measure
speed in furlongs/fortnight!

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