hecto

““Oh, about a hecto of Sarahian weed — a bit here, a bit there.””

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“Latin prefixes _milli_ = 1/1000; _centi_ = 1/100; _deci_ = 1/10; the multiples of each unit by the Greek prefixes _deka_ = 10; _hecto_ = 100;”

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“Then, if we take our dollar as a unit we would have to call our cent a cente-dollar, and if we take our cent as a unit we would have to call our dollar a hecto-cent.”

The British and the Metric Systems

“In 2007, it leased land in Mojo Town, 73km from Addis Abeba in the Oromia Regional State, to establish a brewery with an annual production capacity of 300,000 hecto litres (3 billion litres) using a capital of 200 million Br. That capacity, the company said, would grow to 500,000 hecto litres (5 billion litres) in a year's time.”

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