Subject: Re: [LAU] thunderstorm

From: nescivi <nescivi@...> · Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 5:41 pm

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:59:49 Bob van der Poel wrote:

quoted text> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Fons Adriaensen

wrote:

quoted text> > 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.
I still find it astonishing that with all their ideas of freedom, they insist

on keeping this imperial system :)
> Or not. Mind you, we did here in Canada 20+ (30?) years

quoted text> 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

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