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ooli3@sopuli.xyzM to archeology@sopuli.xyz · 10 days ago

In the 12th century, Bologna was filled with roughly 100 high-rise towers, but only two survived, including one reaching 97 meters tall

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In the 12th century, Bologna was filled with roughly 100 high-rise towers, but only two survived, including one reaching 97 meters tall

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    The word you are looking for is a “hectometre”.

    That tower would be:

    • 0.097 kilometres tall
    • 0.97 hectometres tall
    • 9.7 decametres tall
    • 97 metres tall
    • 970 decimetres tall
    • 9700 centimetres tall
    • 97000 millimetres tall

    Wikipedia List of Metric Prefixes

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      So, a deca decikilometer?

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        9 days ago

        They don’t even know.

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