> Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > >local stores. Asking for 20 dekagrams (as I would do back home in > >Europe) > I never realised that the prefix "deca" was used in practise at all. > I've always learned it to be a prefix that exists only formally. > What country are you from? Here in sweden we use it, we natives spell it 'hekto' regards Jörgen