I caught that as well (actually posted the same story to this list some months ago). Howard Ressel, Metric Manager New York State Department of Transportation, Region 4 >>> "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/26/01 12:40am >>> Good eyes, John. I suspect that was a simple typo. By the way, mein Frau Sally and I just watched a tape of "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?" At the end of the movie, which is set in the Depression, Everet (George Clooney) is about to re-marry his wife, who had divorced him when he went to prison. She wants her old wedding ring, though, but it was in a house in a valley that has just been flooded to provide hydroelectric power for that area in Mississippi. He tells her that finding that ring now is impossible since it's at the bottom of a 9000 hectare lake! She says that she doesn't care if it's a 90 000 ha lake, she wants that ring! I really doubt that they used hectares in Mississippi in the '30s and I wonder if this was put in there for international appeal and comprehension. It is a zany movie, filled with American shtick, and that was perhaps the most comprehendable part of it for non-Americans. Jim On Tuesday 25 September 2001 23:37, kilopascal wrote: > 2001-09-25 > > The 2001 Sep-Oct issue of Metric Today has an error on page 8, the > back page. > > The Answers to Metric Training & Education Test states: > > 7/10 of 1 hectare = 700 square metres. > > The correct answer should be that 7/10 of 1 hectare is 7 000 square > metres. Since a hectare is 100 m x 100 m and that is the same as 10 > 000 m�, then 0.7 of 10 000 is 7 000, not 700. > > I hope this is someone else's error and not that of the USMA. > > John ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
