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Nice to see all metric in CNN note:
"The Palm islands comprise approximately 100 million cubic meters of
rock and sand. In total, 210 million cubic meters of rock, sand and
limestone were reclaimed (through dredging) to create the islands, with
10 million cubic meters of rock used in the outer ring alone. The rocks
used for both islands were transported from 16 quarries throughout the
UAE and the materials used are enough to build a wall that could circle
the world three times."
Description of "Palm Islands" in
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/04/travel/engineering-feats/index.html?hpt=hp_c4
Spot checking the notes for the other 25 "slides" revealed only a few
non-metric unit usages and those were parenthetical!
Jim
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