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FWIW, a visitor who was a native of Sweden once mentioned to me that the 'are' was something that dated back to medieval times...

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On Tue, 7/5/16, (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: Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 4:28 PM

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 On 5 Jul 2016 at
 15:40, David Shaw wrote:

 > Um... According to my sources, 1 hectare
 is approximately 2.5 acres. I
 > think
 you're getting mixed up between metres squared and
 square metres
 > - 1 hectare is 100m
 squared, not 100 square metres.

 Ok, that's weird. Because that means that
 an are is 10mx10m. While a
 stere is
 1m*1m*1m.

 Can you say
 "inconsistent"?

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