On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0500, TheOther wrote:

> 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 ?

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.

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