[OT] Re: SHA1 broken?

[Samuel ]slund]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Spiff Traq wrote:
> > 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'

A 'hekto' is very closely associated with 100g of weight, if I heard it
used for measuring any thing else (except a square a with 100 meters
side 'hektar') it would be a little bit surprising.

//Samuel