Talk:Hecto-
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[edit]About hecto/hecato: the article currently [1] says "Based on a proposal by Thomas Young, the prefix was often alternatively spelled hecato in early 19th century", without context. However, this puristic spelling was mainly limited to English. It might be useful to add that Young was a dreaded opponent of the metric system in England, that he ridiculed the French neologisms, and that the metric system had no legal status in England at that time. The system was legalised in 1864 by the Metric Weights and Measures Act, which introduced a single legal spelling in English, hecto. The expression "proposal by Thomas Young" somewhat suggests that Young invented the alternative spelling hecato. However, Prieur explained in 1795 [2] that the prefix hecto derived from hecato(n), but that after careful consideration the spelling hecto was chosen. It is a neologism, not subject to puristic conventions. The French law of 1795 that introduced the metric system in France introduced a single legal spelling: hecto. Ceinturion (talk) 16:45, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
Decimal digits
[edit]The number of decimal digits of the multiples seems wrong, they should be +3. The subunits seem ok. 94.64.7.63 (talk) 15:46, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
- Your statement is unclear. If you are serious about your problem you might want to provide a single specific example? Ceinturion (talk) 16:19, 20 September 2022 (UTC)