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From: Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: The rye bread! Result and troubleshooting.
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On 2024-08-16, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2024-08-16 5:22 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2024-08-16, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>> So far, our "conversion to metric" has cost me one additional set of tools.
>>> Plumbers haven't bought into it, so I still need a 1/2 inch wrench!
>>> I was lied to, by those in charge, when I was a kid!
>> 
>> You were certainly misled.  Those who were advocating for metric
>> underestimated the stubbornness and ignorance of the American public.
>> 
>
>
> It wouldn't be so bad if they actually knew most of the Imperial system. 
> It's easy enough to figure there are 10,000 square meters in a hectare 
> but very few Imperial proponents know how many square feet there are in 
> an acre.

Well, yeah.  But nobody thinks that way.  Might as well worry about furlongs
per fortnight.

My "2-acre" plot is 264 x 336 ft (if memory serves), but it's not exactly
2 acres.  I suppose if I were dumb enough to want to fertilize the
entire thing I'd have to do the arithmetic.  I usually want to fertilize
only a portion (say, if I'm seeding grass), so I say, "Will a bag that
does 5000 square feet be enough for that area?"

Most city and older suburban lots are about 5000 square feet.
Zillow tells me my mother's lot is 4269 square feet.  Nobody
cares what fraction of an acre it is.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton