24 Jun
2009
24 Jun
'09
4:20 p.m.
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:57:39 -0500
TheOther <theother1510(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
<snip>
As a point of interest, chains are still used as a linear measurement
by the railways in the UK.
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0500,
TheOther wrote:
Hello Fons,
You can Google an acre for the definition. I found this definition to
be accurate and somewhat easier to understand:
The Question:
We are trying to find feet measurement for an acre—not the square
footage. Can you please help? Let's see, there's 640 acres to a
section, and a section of
land is 1 mile by 1 mile, or a 1 mile square.
Incredible, those units !
So a square piece of one acre would have a size of
1 mile / sqrt(640). That square root is not an integer.
Is this the definition of 1 acre ?