At 21:55 -0500 01/02/21, Duncan Bath wrote:
>In my opinion, the job of getting farmers and real estate folks to adopt
>hectares over acres is difficult enough. To ask them to go from acres to
>thousands of square metres would be to create a 'mission impossible'!
>The hectare, like the litre, puts a 'human face' on SI. In both cases, it
>is SO easy to convert to pure SI when needed for further calculations.
>For the time being, let's get the C.I.A. [and others] to correct their
>"World Fact Book". That's where one can find some real 'leverage'.
>Duncan
I fully agree.
If I may give some advice from a metric corner of the world, don't be
too rigorist in your efforts to convince your co-citizens.
Even here, many people consider the pure SI as a matter for
specialists, compared to the old good metric system. Let's keep some
"human face" within SI, as Duncan says. It is a good service to
render to the US' metrication cause.
Louis
