Re: Wolfram | Alpha: Acres per square mile? (oddities)
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- Subject: [mg101202] Re: Wolfram | Alpha: Acres per square mile? (oddities)
- From: "Hans Michel" <hmichel at cox.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:53:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Try "acre mile^2" This query returned the requisite 640 you are looking for. According to article about W|A http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22834/ Mr Weisstein put some work into the Unit part. Hans "AES" <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote in message news:h1vm2n$a8q$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Just out of curiosity (and a current need for info) (and to start > learning about W|A), typed: > > Acres per square mile > > into Wolfram | Alpha. Results came back (had to do a little hand editing > of the following): > > Assuming U.S. acres for "acres" > Use > international acres > commercial acres > Irish acres > Hungarian acres > instead > > Input interpretation: > > acres/mi^2 > > Unit conversions: > > 0.3861 acres per square kilometer > > 6.323 square meters per acre > > 0.1563 hectares per square kilometer > > 0.4047 hectares per square mile > > 0.003861 acres per hectare > > Don't see "640" there anywhere! -- and something seriously wrong with > that first unit conversion? (not to mention all the others) -- or at > least the way it's phrased -- more like 250 acres per square kilometer? > > Went to M7, tried > > Needs["Units`"] > Convert[Acre, Mile^2] > > Mile^2/640 > > Went to Units Tutorial: Seems odd to see "Centimeter", "Meter", > "Micron", "Mile", and a bunch of arcane units listed there -- but NOT > "Kilometer"??? ("Gram" and "Kilogram" are in there). >