[USMA:32717] RE: MIT Technology Review

[Bill Hooper]

On 2005 Apr 16 , at 11:22 AM, Nat Hager III wrote (refering to an an earlier quoted msg):

And liters exceed normal individual human thirst.

So do quarts. So you use a smaller size - such 0.1 L or 100 ml

In many parts of Europe where I have travelled, they use decilitres (dL or dl) and centilitres (c or cl) for drinks (wine glasses, beer glasses, smaller wine bottles, beer bottles, water bottles, etc).

1 dL = 0.1 L = 100 mL
1 cL = 0.01 L = 10 mL

Personally, I don't care for the use of the centi and deci prefixes, myself (or deka and hecto), but that's another topic entirely. I prefer referring to such smaller quantities as 0.1 L or 10 mL, etc. as Nat did.

The point is, the litre is NOT an inconvenient size since it is very easy to represent quantities less than a litre either with simple decimals or with submultiples like millilitres or even centilitres and decilitres.

Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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