Re: Re: Unit Conversion
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- Subject: [mg38069] Re: [mg38000] Re: [mg37973] Unit Conversion
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:09:49 -0500 (EST)
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Perhaps you are interpreting "are" as a misprint for "acre". It is actually a surface unit: one are is a piece of land measuring 100 square meters, i.e. one one-hundredth of a hectare (= 10,000 square meters). So, it doesn't give the correct answer. Tomas Garza Mexico City ----- Original Message ----- From: "Y.A.Tesiram" <yas at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg38069] [mg38000] Re: [mg37973] Unit Conversion > 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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