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I was ready to defend it this time, because for area, it isn't intuitive to grasp square metres or kilometres for irregular shapes. But in fact they are using i
by johnwalkr 3y ago
I was ready to defend it this time, because for area, it isn't intuitive to grasp square metres or kilometres for irregular shapes. But in fact they are using it for length here. Maybe I still want to defend it as it does give me a mental visual image and practically everyone has the experience of watching a variety of football and/or playing a variety of football.
- mulmen 3y agoI think it works here because it gives a sense like "imagine two new football fields showed up on your local coastline". But then maybe that's not the right sense. It could be true for miles of coastline. Regardless it is a significant change.
- CosmicShadow 3y agoMaybe practically everyone "in America"
- johnwalkr 3y agoBy "variety of football" I meant American football and football/soccer. The lengths of both fields is about the same.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoYou say that, but I have no idea how long those. If we played soccer, we'd play it at the local footy oval[0]. I don't know anyone who plays gridiron ("American Football"), but I assume they'd play that there too. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_playing_field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules_football_play...
- Grimpen 3y agoI did a "Sportsball Fields" conversion tool for calculator. Only thing is it assumes area, not length. It lets me convert between regulation fields for National Football League, International Football Association Board, Canadian Football League, Rugby Union (max and min permissible), Rugby League (max & min) plus curling, and ice hockey (NFL and IIHF). Just need to figure out Australian Rules Football. And then sorry do it all over for length. Anything but metric.