On 2001-07-11 09:42 -0600, Bruce Raup wrote: > On 2001-07-11 14:58 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In Killarney I saw an ad for land. It measured 37 acres 3 roods 15 perches. The > > According to the GNU "units" program, a rood is 1/4 of an acre, which is > consistent with acres, but a perch is 5.5 US yards, or about 5.03 m. This > doesn't seem to make sense, since it's used as an area. Is there a > different definition of perch -- perhaps akin to the way the "yard" is > used in the US to mean cubic yard? > > Bruce Nevermind. Just found the answer in http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictP.html: perch [2] a unit of area equal to one square perch [1]. A perch of area covers exactly 272.25 square feet or about 25.292 85 square meters. There are 40 perches in a rood and 160 perches in an acre. Bruce
