ARE exists on paper probably, but nobody knows it! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: [USMA:19941] Re: USMA & French Franc
> 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 >
