Metric

[Frank Weston]

1 pint = 0.473167 liter
1 rod = 5.029210 meters
1 ton = 907.185 kilograms
1 hectare = 2.471044 acres
1 fortnight = 14 metric days
1 furlong = 220 meters (app..)

If your car's speedometer were calibrated in furlongs/fortnight, you would
be speeding in most parts of the U.S. when it read 174,720.

Frank Weston

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> From: Avery Todd <atodd@UH.EDU>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Metric
> Date: Monday, December 29, 1997 2:59 PM
> 
> List,
> 
>    Can someone give me the "formula" for converting American measurements
> to metric? I have the info somewhere, but I can't find it right now.
> Thanks.
> 
> Avery
> 
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