File talk:Comparison land area units.svg

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Actually, I've never heard of a "decare." However, at least in Germany sometimes the unit "Morgen" (= morning) is still used. Originally it probably meant the same thing as the English acre, the area ploughed by a yoke of oxen in one day. Today a "Morgen" is officially defined as .5 hectare. (Personally I believe that's because all the metric measures were chosen too large by factor 2 for day to day purposes, e.g. pound vs. kilogram or pint vs. liter, probably because Napoleon was a short man and used his system as compensation.)

In any case, maybe the dubious "decare" should be removed from the otherwise excellent diagram in favor of the "Morgen." --85.181.133.210

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Kindly change the colors to some colors that the color blind people can see Abdelhamidelsayed (talk) 18:26, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Abdelhamidelsayed, Colour does not convey essential information in this image; it's fully intelligible even when rendered as greyscale, so the diagram is already colour-blind-accessible. Cheers, cmɢʟee ⋅τaʟκ 20:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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