Many of these wierd units make perfect sense to those working in that field every day.
The acre-feet for example. It is only necessary to figure the area of a pond once and then a simple ruler will tell you how much water is in it and if you need to start rationing water use. -John =============== > J. Forster wrote: >> Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet. > > A personal favorite of my own production is the volume cubicliter. :) > > A related measure is the squareliter... which is the area that a liter > of milk spilled on a kitchen floor covers. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
