Thank the french for this also.?ÿ See how many units you can find in this is one recording.
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how many ft?
43,560
True, but how many silly people have assumed a square acre is some very basic distance along each side. Somehow, 208.71 feet just doesn't roll off the tongue like 330 or 660 or even 220.
Miner's Inch
Another "variable" unit that I run into from time to time, although rarely an issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miner%27s_inch
miner's inch is common in the Sierra foothills for ditch water which is not drinking water, irrigation only.
of course I know the sq footage.
it worth remembering that it’s 10 sq ch.
just like 80 sq ch in a section.
Yupper yupper.
Most of my career was spent in Mining Districts in the Western US, and references to the Miner's Inch were common in many of the documents of record.
just like 80 sq ch in a section.
80 ch square is not the same as 80 sq chains.
ok. The syntax matters. But, It??s not like a math error would??ve resulted. A ch squared, a square ch.
i make that same syntax error with cubic meters. But I get the arithmetic right. I??m not publishing a white paper.
however, I am running into others that ain??t a clue of ch rods and links.?ÿ
I have had similar issues with the use of our language regarding area measurements. Once a client was wanting me to create a two-acre square tract. I pointed out how the county insisted you have at least three acres to allow for installation of onsite sewer treatment means. He couldn't figure out why that would be a problem. After a couple of minutes of confusion he clarified that he wanted his tract to be two acres east to west and two acres north to south. Ah!?!?!?!? He wanted a total of four acres that was in the shape of a square. I have had others tell me they want their tract to be five acres long by four acres wide.
At the other end of the scale, I worked for IBM designing integrated circuits around the year 2000. One of the databases we used stored lengths as an integer. One database unit equals 0.01 ?¬m = 10 nm. We were worried it might not be small enough.
10 nm. We were worried it might not be small enough.
Features smaller than that are now in production.