[time-nuts] Obscure terms

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Thu Aug 20 18:26:57 UTC 2009


Many of these wierd units make perfect sense to those working in that
field every day.

The acre-feet for example. It is only necessary to figure the area of a
pond once and then a simple ruler will tell you how much water is in it
and if you need to start rationing water use.

-John

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> J. Forster wrote:
>> Civil engineers measure water reservoirs in Acre-Feet.
>
> A personal favorite of my own production is the volume cubicliter. :)
>
> A related measure is the squareliter... which is the area that a liter
> of milk spilled on a kitchen floor covers.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
>
>





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