SI prefix
... are sometimes denoted in hectolitres; otherwise in cubic metres or cubic kilometres. In Australia, large quantities of water ... usually called a fermi. At large scales, megametre, gigametre, and larger are rarely used. Often ... of the litre, which is one thousandth cubic metre (0.001 m³) or one cubic decimetre (1 dm³), where it could ...
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Talk:Anti-metrication
... lets you calculate the size of a megametre based on the meanings of the standard ... Peter Piper would never pick 7570.8 cubic centimetres of pickled peppers; "You dig 14 ...
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Metric system
... water weighs 1 kg and measures 1 cubic decimetre (dm³). Other units were derived from ... used for some units: the expressions hectometre, megametre and megagram are hardly ever heard, neither ...
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