23 Jun
2009
23 Jun
'09
3:41 p.m.
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:59:49 Bob van der Poel wrote:
I still find it astonishing that with all their ideas of freedom, they insist
on keeping this imperial system :)
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Fons Adriaensen
<fons(a)kokkinizita.net>wrote;wrote:
On Tue, Jun
23, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0500, TheOther wrote:
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. 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 ? 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.
Mostly for practical reasons, as I understand... with a lot of products coming
from our southern neighbours...
But yes, Canada is a bit confused about which measurement system to use. It
gets even more confusing in the french part here ;)
sincerely,
Marije