Paul, sir: Popularity for adoption of the 'preferred' Metric System shall gain momentum if *International Board of Cricket Control" and member countries just adopted the conversion of CRICKET PITCH as 20 metre. Land units may lack implimentation and get drowned the purpose. Brij Bhushan Vij Wednesday, 2012 March 14H21:71(decimal)IST Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda The Astronomical Poem (revised number of days in any month) "30 days has July,September, April, June, November and December all the rest have 31 except February which has 29 except on years divisible evenly by 4; except when YEAR divisible by 128 and 3200 - as long as you remember that "October (meaning 8) is the 10th month; and December (meaning 10) is the 12th BUT has 30 days & ONE OUTSIDE of calendar-format" Jan:31; Feb:29; Mar:31; Apr:30; May:31; Jun:30 Jul:30; Aug:31; Sep:30; Oct:31; Nov:30; Dec:30 (365th day of Year is World Day) ******As per Kali V-GRhymeCalendaar***** "Koi bhi cheshtha vayarth nahin hoti, purshaarth karne mein hai" My Profile - http://www.brijvij.com/bbv_2col-vipBrief.pdf Author had NO interaction with The World Calendar Association except via Media & Organisations to who I contributed for A Possible World Calendar, since 1971. HOME PAGE: http://www.brijvij.com/ Contact via E-mail: [email protected]
CC: [email protected] From: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:51516] Re: Hectare Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:23:58 -0500 To: [email protected] I would be delighted to see the metric system replace the pre-metric units currently in everyday use in the U.S. , even if area is expressed in chunks of 10,000 m^2! Paul Trusten, Reg. Pharmacist Vice President U.S. Metric Association, Inc. Midland, Texas USA www.metric.org +1(432)528-7724 [email protected] On Mar 13, 2012, at 21:06, Paul Rittman <[email protected]> wrote: What do people on this mailing list think of the hectare? I looked up a few posts that were several years old, and it appears that some were for, some against. At first sight, it appeared to me a very convenient form of land measurement, being about the area of two American football fields put together (easy to visualize), and convenient for measuring the size of most lots and estates. The other measurements, the square meter and square kilometer, seemed to produce numbers that were too large or too small, especially since Americans are used to evaluating the size of estates in terms of fractions of an acre, or tens or hundreds of acres (and very occasionally thousands and millions of acres). Now, however, I’m having second thoughts. I recall in my reading of metric advocates, at least one has proposed using only square meters and square kilometers (and avoiding the hectare). The square m and km are a factor of a million apart from each other (making for easier conversions), whereas the hectare is 10,000 square meters, and I always forget how many hectares are in a square kilometer. Introducing the hectare to Americans who are rather unfamiliar with the metric system might give them one more term to use (and it loses the simplicity of the metric system, in that it has the hect- prefix, but not the base unit); simply using square meters and square kilometers would give them more practice in the units that are already more common. The SI brochure (8th edition) places it in the non-SI units that are acceptable (see page 124, Table 6. Non-SI units accepted for use with the International System of Units). On page 117, it seems to prefer the square meter, saying nothing about the square kilometer (itself of course being a multiple of the square meter). So is what is the opinion here about the use of the hectare, specifically in the United States? I realize that it is not common at all in real estate, but my question is, is this a unit that should be used when exposing people to the metric system? Or is this a unit that should be abandoned? I’d say junk it, but I just hate using numbers that are either incredibly small or incredibly large, for lots that are in the ½ to 50 acre range, for instance. Today I told my students about a large land grant in the American colonial period of some 45,000 square kilometers. I wasn’t sure how they would understand that, so I told them that this was essentially the northern third of North Carolina. Still, I was wondering later on if giving them the measurement in hectares would have been better.
