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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    1 year ago

    No, some measurements just aren’t used, even when they’d be a good fit.

    Like lengths. We never use anything above km. Even for things like space, we say “million km” rather than gigametre.

    The closest we come to hectometre is hectare, which is used for land area.