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As the engineer said when his bridge fell down "damn
that decimal point!!"
D.
-----Original Message-----
From:
kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
September 25, 2001 23:34
Subject: [USMA:15388] Metric Today
Error
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
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