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Re: Re: Unit Conversion

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  • Subject: [mg38070] Re: [mg38000] Re: [mg37973] Unit Conversion
  • From: "Y.A.Tesiram" <yas at pcomm.hfi.unimelb.edu.au>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:09:51 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Err, yes, my mistake. My book doesn't have Are :) But Mathematica DOES
give the correct answer whether its Are or Acre (Vers. 4.2).

Convert[2 Hectare, Are] // N

200. Are

Yas



On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Tomas Garza wrote:

> 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
> To: <mathgroup at smc.vnet.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 12:56 AM
> Subject: [mg38070] [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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