[Sca-cooks] measurement Was:Re: Sign of the Timesperhaps--Dinner at Crown - cancelled

Antonia Calvo ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Mon May 26 17:20:01 PDT 2008


S CLEMENGER wrote:

>I could also point out that switching to metric would make unholy hash out 
>of a lot of land measurements, at least here in the American west, where a 
>lot of property is measured out in square miles, and acres (as a percentage 
>of a square mile).
>  
>

*shrug*

Land used to be measured in acres here, too.  Now, I have 545m2 to call 
my own :-)


-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
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-Georgeus Gershwinus
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