>what kinda calc?
>casio? on a palm?

I wrote:
>>  I have a
>> calculator with a conversion chart that refers to "acre" rather than
>> "are".  Is this a typo?
>>
>> Carl

It is a cheap Office Depot brand calculator with a printed conversion table
on the inside of its cover.  It has a number of oddities.  Here is a sample
of what it has:
Metric                        GB & US
25.3995 millmetres [sic]      1 inch
4.8297 kilometres             1 league
1 acre                        0.0247 acres
1 hectare                     2.471 acres
1 centigram                   0.1543 grains
1 litre                       1.75 pints (2.101 us pints)

etc.

I think I will write a letter and mention the problem with are/acre, the old
definition of the inch (and misspelling of millimeter), and the oddity of
leagues, centigrams, and grains.

Carl

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