On 6/16/2012 2:54 PM, andy pugh wrote: > On 16 June 2012 18:48, Dave<e...@dc9.tzo.com> wrote: > >>>> I suspect real estate was also to be a holdout, hell, nobody around here >>>> >> has a clue what a hectar is, not even me.<< >> >> I think that Hectars are english also, as well as fathoms, etc. >> > No, the Hectare is metric. > > An Are is an area 1km x 1km. A Hectare is 1/100 of that. So, a hectare > is the area of a square 100m on a side. > (1 million square metres to the Are, 10,000m^2 to the hectare.) > >
>>A metric unit of square measure, equal to 100 ares (2.471 acres or 10,000 square meters). Well obviously I didn't know what a Hectare was. Ironically my house lot is very close to a Hectare at 2.4 acres (in "flyover country"), so now I know I can relate to a Hectare. :-) Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
