Jim Silly question, You must not live in California. Of course it is 1/640 of a square mile or was it 1/460 of a square something else? In any case, everyone in California knows it is 1/50,000 of what an average wild fire burns. ws ***** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Palfreyman" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:16 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Obscure terms
> Sheez - I'm so glad we have metric!! > > Can I ask you US dudes a question? > > Do you know, without looking it up, what an acre is? > > It's such a commonly used term for measuring large areas, but I bet > most don't know what it actually is. I only know because of Pink > Floyd. > > We use a hectare which is 100mx100m. Very easy to visualise, work with > and convert. > > Jim Palfreyman > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
