Right. I was only 1 % right. You must recall that as a Navy officer
(retired) I'm a government employee and 1 % accuracy is considered
"above average".
Seriously, .... geez, what a boner that was in my email!
Jim
Martin Vlietstra wrote:
No ... a hectare is 10000 (100^2) square metres.
200 square hectares could be arranged in a large number of ways, including a
strip 100 m wide and 20 km long. (200 squares, each with sides 100 m in a
row).
BTW, a hectare, whether it is square or not, is approximately the size of an
average-sized baseball field. (OK, I know that baseball fields vary in
size)
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 14 June 2008 23:24
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:41095] RE: Square hectares
Well, a hectare is 100 square meters. So 200 square hectares would then
be 20 000 square square meters.
Jim
Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Is the term "square hectare" really redundant? Surely a piece of land
that
is 100 m by 100 m can be descried as a "square hectare"? After all, it is
a
square.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 14 June 2008 16:27
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:41089] Square hectares
The June 06 issue of Science contains a fascinating series of articles
written by Andrew Lawler on the Indus people. I spotted a glitch in the
first one that stimulated the following note to the author, with copy to
the editors at Science.
Jim
Dear Mr. Lawler,
I am reading your fascinating article, "Boring no More", on the Indus
people and I have just come across a jarring phrase. You speak of the
Mohenjo Daro covering "at least 200 square hectares". "Square hectares"
is redundant, as would be "cubic liters". The former is a unit of area
and the latter a unit of volume.
Certainly this must have been just a "slip of the pen". I am rather
amazed that a technical editor at Science did not catch this error.
Otherwise, thank you very much for your fascinating articles in this
series. I look forward to learning more about these ancient people and
their civilization as I read your articles.
--
James R. Frysinger
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