M R wrote on 2002-07-01 23:09 UTC:
> '8.5 million decaliters'
> I believe the spelling should be deka.  

ISO 1000:1992(E) writes "deca". "Deka" looks German to me, not English
(just like "zenti" versus "centi").

Markus

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