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“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.

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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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But the problem with hella and bronto is that their symbols (h and b) are already used in the metric system for other units or prefixes: h, for example, stands for hecto (the rarely used 102) and H is the henry, the unit of inductance.

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