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Re: Unit Conversion

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• Subject: [mg38000] Re: [mg37973] Unit Conversion
• From: "Y.A.Tesiram" <yas at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au>
• Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:56:45 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

No, it gives the correct answer.

In[2]:= Convert[Hectare, Acre]//N

Out[2]= 2.47105 Acre

1 hectare = 2.471 acre (Halliday and Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 2nd
Ed.)



>
> 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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