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From: Bill Hooper <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [USMA:51271] Apartment Ad in NY Magazine Date: 2011 Oct 23 9:47:43 AM EDT To: Kilopascal <[email protected]> On Oct 22 , at 12:27 PM, Kilopascal wrote: > I think you got your square and cubic metres crossed. The surface area of > the floor is what is desired not the volume of the room. > > You're absolutely right: I got my cubic metre symbols and square metre symbols confused. I had just finished typing something else that involved cubic metres and my brain was still thinking about the "cubed" symbol when I was supposed to be writing the "squared" symbol. Good eye, catching this slip-up. Bill Hooper 1800 mm tall Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI. ========================== [USMA:51271] Re: Apartment Ad in NY Magazine > > Bill Hooper > Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:42:54 -0700 > > > Too bad they don't know enough to round off reasonably. This probably should > state the metric size as 300 m3 . OOOPS! > Surely the old English description of "3,200 > SF" is not measured to a precision greater than about 1%. Since 10 sq. ft. is > approximately 1 m3 , OOOPS again! > so that 3 m3 ... and another "OOOPS!" > is about 30 sq. ft., I'm sure that the rounded figure of 300 m3 ... and one last OOOPS!" > is quite adequate. It is different from 3200 sq. ft. > by less than 1%. > > >
