Madan wrote in USMA 19940: >Similarly in everyday page >http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/everyday.htm >"Area: >10 000 square meters = 1 hectare >100 hectares = 1 square kilometer" > >We can add '1 are = 100 square meters'. This may >lead people to use the unit. > >Madan
The aim of the Everyday Metric page was to strip SI down to the units that one might meet in everyday reading. It purposely excluded details of the metric system that one is unlikely to meet I lived 5 years in France and I can not recall ever having seen an are there. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
