<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Fons Adriaensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fons@kokkinizita.net">fons@kokkinizita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0500, TheOther wrote:<br>
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> Let's see, there's 640 acres to a section, and a section of<br>
> land is 1 mile by 1 mile, or a 1 mile square.<br>
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</div>Incredible, those units !<br>
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So a square piece of one acre would have a size of<br>
1 mile / sqrt(640). That square root is not an integer.<br>
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Is this the definition of 1 acre ?<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>In old days (long before you and me) an acre was the amount of land a man and an ox could plow in a day :) One day in the distant future the USA will adopt metric. Or not. Mind you, we did here in Canada 20+ (30?) years ago and we still talk about miles, acres, pounds and inches. Instead of a metric or imperial system we have a bit of both.<br>
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