My property is nearly a square, a little more than 100 m on each side. Its size is easy to visualize as two 50 meter Olympic swimming pools end-to-end on each side, a little more than 10^4 square meters, a little more than one hectare.
Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:06:24 -0600 >From: James Frysinger <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:42580] Re: An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta >Journal-Constitution >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > >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
