-----Original Message----- From: SUE DICKINSON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 25, 2002 11:03 Subject: Re: Not an application
>Dear Mr. Bath, >Thank you for pointing out our old-fashioned description of our campus area, and for doing the conversion to SI for us. I still find that most adults are unable to relate to metric measures for certain things - personal heights and weights, atmospheric pressure and area come to mind immediately. However, I will be sure to use the 15 ha value in the future. >Yours, >Susan Dickinson > >>>> "Duncan Bath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/21/02 03:04PM >>> >Modern Measures: > >In its ad in the Globe & Mail of Mar 18, reference is made to ".. a 37 >acre campus ..". > >One wonders why such well-known, yet obscure, area measures are used in an >educational context. To illustrate what I mean, please look at this area >business the old way and the international, SI way: > > Sq.Ft. Acres Sq.Mi. >1,611,720 37 0.058 > > m^2 hm^2 (ha) km^2 >150,000 15 0.15 > >It can readily be seen how irrationally related are the area measures >associated with acres. And, the coherrence of SI. > >One presumes that the students at HTS 'do their sums' in SI. Why would >HTS not practice what it teaches? >Duncan >DT Bath, 861 Kensington Dr., Peterborough ON K9J 6J8 >(705)743-4297 > > > >
