Well, it is 10^4 cubic meters, a break from the usual powers of 1000. To avoid long numbers (and large counting words, I would prefer to use one of 1 dam³ = 10^3 m³ 1 hm³ = 10^6 m³ 1 km³ = 10^9 m³ according to magnitude SAE TSB003 recommends the cubic dekameter for amounts of (irrigation) water that in Customary would be expressed in acre-feet (1 acre-foot = 1.23348 dam³), and does not permit the hectare-meter. I don't know whether the hectare-meter is used in other countries. It's symbol would be confusing without a middle dot, ha·m.
--- On Tue, 4/17/12, Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> wrote: From: Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51604] Hectare- meter To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 7:47 PM Hi all; In figuring out or reporting volume capacity is hectare-meter redundant instead of cubic meter? -- Sincerely, Edward B.
