That's true, Stan! So folks should not be required to learn these unless
they need to.
The hectare is commonly used in agricultural research and statistics.
Sometimes, too, in forestry.
Jim
STANLEY DOORE wrote:
Hectare is just another name and conversion to learn, remember and
visualize.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Frysinger"
<[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 8:06 PM
Subject: [USMA:42580] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Hectare is easier to understand if you realize it's just another name
for hectometer squared. (Though historically it likely meant "hundred
ares" where an are equals 100 m2.)
Jim
STANLEY DOORE wrote:
Now you're talking. The use of km^2 or m^2 would be much more
understandable and useful than use hectares
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jeremiah MacGregor <mailto:[email protected]>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:24 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:42454] Re: An Associated Press article in today's
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Norman,
Who in the US would know what 2500 hectares is? I don't even know
what 6180 acres is. I would prefer it if they used square miles or
kilos. Jerry
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*From:* Norman & Nancy Werling <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 9:50:06 AM
*Subject:* [USMA:42415] An Associated Press article in today's
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
USMA list members,
Spanish energy company Acciona Energia will build a wind farm in
Mexico which will be the largest in Latin America.
The article was written by Mark Stevenson of Associated Press. It
states that the wind farm will be 6180 acres. When converted back
to hectares that would have been 2500 hectares. Don't you
agree that Mark Stevenson was required to convert those 2500
hectares to 6180 acres by the Associated Press, even had he wanted
to report using the metric measure?
Norm Werling
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