> At 05:58 PM 11/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >
> > >It's still hard to visualize the Kilometer.....the mile is
> hard to ditch.
> >
> >I can't picture a hectare at all.
>
> One km is about a city big block.
>
> A hectare is about 2.5 acres.

        Actually hectare is easy for me: a square 100m to a side.

        Acre is harder for me, I usually think of it as a square, ~60m to a side.
Not perfectly accurate but "good enough" to have an idea. TTYL

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