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You got acres/hectares memorized?  ;-)

p.s. I can do most conversions by 'rule of thumb' in my head but there's nothing like a calculator to impress!

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On Sun, 7/3/16, (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: Metric Converters, was  Re: [TML] Every day it seems we're closer to Cyberpunk 2020...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Sunday, July 3, 2016, 6:21 PM

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 On 3 Jul 2016 at
 15:53, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:

 > It may be just me, but I
 always carry a metric converter.
 >
 > Some tourists from Sweden were quite
 surprised when, after viewing
 > some real
 estate 'for sale' signs, they asked "What are
 'acres'" & I
 > whipped
 out my trusty calculator!

 Who needs a converter. An acre is 1/640th of a
 square mile.

 So 10 acres is
 1/8th mile on a side (if it was square). 2.5 acres is
 1/16th of a mile on a side, etc.

 Yes, I have
 "strategic" bits of the American system of units

 memorized:

 1 inch = 2.54 cm (legal definition)
 1 gallon = 231 cubic inches (also a
 definition)

 The usual 12 in
 = 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 5280 feet = 1 mile
 16 ounces = 1 pound

 oh yeah. one ounce = 28.35 grams.

 There are probably a few more
 I'm not coming up with right this
 minute.

 But
 with only a few conversion factors for length, area, volume,
 and
 weight, you can go a long ways.
 --
 Leonard Erickson (aka
 shadow)
 shadow at shadowgard dot com

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