Or you can just type it into Google ("2.5 acres in hectares"). The Google search bar from anywhere (browser address bar, if G is your default search engine) is a calculator, including sine/cosine/etc.
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You got acres/hectares memorized? ;-)
p.s. I can do most conversions by 'rule of thumb' in my head but there's nothing like a calculator to impress!
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On 3 Jul 2016 at
15:53, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> It may be just me, but I
always carry a metric converter.
>
> Some tourists from Sweden were quite
surprised when, after viewing
> some real
estate 'for sale' signs, they asked "What are
'acres'" & I
> whipped
out my trusty calculator!
Who needs a converter. An acre is 1/640th of a
square mile.
So 10 acres is
1/8th mile on a side (if it was square). 2.5 acres is
1/16th of a mile on a side, etc.
Yes, I have
"strategic" bits of the American system of units
memorized:
1 inch = 2.54 cm (legal definition)
1 gallon = 231 cubic inches (also a
definition)
The usual 12 in
= 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 5280 feet = 1 mile
16 ounces = 1 pound
oh yeah. one ounce = 28.35 grams.
There are probably a few more
I'm not coming up with right this
minute.
But
with only a few conversion factors for length, area, volume,
and
weight, you can go a long ways.
--
Leonard Erickson (aka
shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com
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