Thanks Phil, You are right. I didn't include the exponent.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-03-02 23.26, Philip S Hall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pat Naughtin wrote: > Francois Cardarelli in 'Scientific Unit Conversion' gives 9.290304000 as the > conversion factor from the legal unit of area in the UK and in the USA. > (Note that this is not the conversion factor for the square survey foot in > the USA.) > > Hi Pat > > Please ignore this if your mistake was merely an oversight or accidental, > otherwise: > > If you look closer I think you will see there is an exponent to set it to > the right order of magnitude, namely E-02 (10 to the power -2 = 1/100). So > it's actually 9.290304000 E-02 which is 0.09290304000 > > Regards > Phil Hall > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Pat Naughtin > Sent: 02 March 2005 05:55 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:32328] Re: Conversion > > > Dear John, > > Cheers, > > Pat Naughtin ASM (NSAA), LCAMS (USMA)* > PO Box 305, Belmont, Geelong, Australia > Phone 61 3 5241 2008 >
