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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Yep small caliber proof for sure

    My favorite part of decimeters is 1 inch is 1/4 decimeters. 3 decimeters is foot.

    So if it’s like 8 inches. I can just say 2 decimeters

    From there you can say 20 centimeters or .2 meters

    If something is 12ft it’s 36 decimeters or 3.6 meters

    There’s no easy way to turn 8 inches into centimeters other than knowing that 1 inch is about 2.5 centimeters or just estimating in centimeters to begin with.

    You could say 8 inches is 2/3 of a foot. 3ft to a meter. So 1 ft is .30 meters. Then it’s 2/3 of a foot, so .30×2/3=.2.

    Decimeters are the missing link for Americans to convert

    Yards to meters is 1

    Feet to meters is 3

    Inches to decimeters is 4

    Things like a 36 inch doorway, 3 feet, would be 9 decimeters or .9 meters

    Common measurements of inches:

    12 - 4 Decimeters

    18 - 4.5 Decimeters

    24 - 8 Decimeters

    30 - 9.5 Decimeters

    What they would use otherwise would be

    .4 meters

    .45 meters

    .8 meters

    .95 meters

    Saying the standard doorway is 9 Decimeters is way better than saying .9 meters.

    If you rounded to 1 meter. You’re adding 3 1/3 inches. Which is a 10% increase.

    A decimeter tape measure would be nice.