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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 (i.redd.it)
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[–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's almost a deci kilometer!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    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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