Top of my hip-bone to the ground is one metre.
My pace is about 80cm useful when I need to confirm the distance from the stumps to the boundary on a cricket field (OK, you guys might prefer to replace stumps with home base etc). Martin Vlietstra From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stanislav Jakuba Sent: 01 July 2013 16:14 To: U.S. Metric Association Cc: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53017] Re: Si and Agriculture examples Well said, Pierre. ! m is the length of my arm to my nose, one tenth of it is the width of my palm, etc, 100 m is the length of the 100 m dash that everybody runs or observes in schools and in athletic events, and 1 km was the distance from my house I used to cover walking or biking to my best friend's home (hat length has been in my mind for 60 years).. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: On Wednesday, June 26, 2013 11:45:28 Henschel Mark wrote: > Well, I can help you visualize the size of metric units. > > I think of a hectare as two football fields side by side. This is useless to me, as I don't watch football. > Think of a kilometer as five city blocks. Or a railroad train 60 cars long. > Or perhaps three Eiffel towers or ten Statues of Liberty. Then this > distance in two dimensions would be an approximation to visualize a square > kilometer. (Perhaps 25 city blocks in many US cities) Train cars vary in length. City blocks vary widely. Kilometers don't. I know it's 50 m to a certain tree, 200 m straight-line to the interstate, and 1 km by road to the nearest exit. But that doesn't help anyone else visualize distances. Besides calculations of L/m² of rain or kg/m² of seed, there were some guys who were building a fence. They figured how much fencing they needed per 100 m, then every 0.1 km the guy inside the pickup told the guy in the back to throw some. Pierre -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.
