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RE: Unit Conversion

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  • Subject: [mg37996] RE: [mg37973] Unit Conversion
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:56:21 -0500 (EST)
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Andre,

With Mathematica Version 4.2 I obtain

Convert[Hectare, Are]
100 Are

David Park
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http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

From: André Giroux [mailto:giroux at dms.umontreal.ca]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net

Hi all.
I always thought that 1 hectare = 100 are = 100 * 100 meter.
Yet Mathematica says
IN Convert[Hectare, Are]
OUT 98.8422 Are
What is the explanation of this ?





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