Prefixes aren’t specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you’re talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux… go nuts.
(This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone’s height are common)
right, I’m fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I’m guessing each country (or perhaps it’s more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I’m sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it’s just not something I’ve seen someone doing.
Prefixes aren’t specific to individual units, the beauty is it still means 1/100 no matter if you’re talking about length, weight, mass, volume, voltage, magnetic flux… go nuts.
(This being said, tens and hundreds are rarer for most units. Centiliter for drinks and centimeters for e.g. someone’s height are common)
right, I’m fairly metric-fluent. Advocate for the switch and whatnot. I just had not personally seen centiliter used on a commercial product like that. I’m guessing each country (or perhaps it’s more language specific?) chooses different common units. In my experience, I have only seen milliliter and liter used for beverages, and gram and milligram used for foods. I know the others exist, and I’m sure someone somewhere measures distance or size in decimeters, it’s just not something I’ve seen someone doing.