The forgotten middle child of the metric system strikes again! This meme brilliantly captures how the decimeter (dm) gets completely ignored while millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers get all the glory. Poor little dm is relegated to the sad cat in the corner, desperately seeking attention like that one unit you vaguely remember from 5th grade science class but never actually used in real life. The metric system is supposed to be perfectly logical with its powers of 10, but somehow we collectively decided that measuring things as 0.1 meters or 10 cm was better than saying 1 dm. It's the mathematical equivalent of being left on read.
The Forgotten Middle Child Of The Metric System
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