I'd recheck my arithmetic if I were you, Brij. A field that was 220 yd x 220 yd would be 10 acres (48 400 square yards), or about 4 ha (hectares). You got that right in your second calculation, where you correctly calculated 200 m x 200 m.
A square field with an area of an acre would be 69.57 yd x 69.57 yd. (It would actually by 0.0151 square yards short of an acre.) Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Brij Bhushan Vij >Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 08:18 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:27279] Interesting fact from the archives > > >Sirs: >>Akker (acre) has once been used as a unit of area in..... > India for quite a long time; and has been known as ACRE >measuring an area >of 4840 sq.yds. or a field 220yds x220 yds. In metric measure, >this would be >in close proximilty of 200m x200m (40x10^3 sqaure metre). Where mendatory, >'Acre can still remain in use' for a limited period. > >Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >20031025/20:48 PM(IST) >Aa Nau Bhadra Kritvo Yantu Vishwatah -Rg Veda. > *****The New Calendar Rhyme***** >Thirty days in July, September: >April, June, November, December; >All the rest have thirty-one; accepting February alone: >Which hath but twenty-nine, to be (in) fine; >Till leap year gives the whole week READY: >Is it not time to MODIFY or change to make it perennial, Oh Daddy! > >And make the calendar work with Leap Week Rule! >***** ***** ***** ***** > >>From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [USMA:27278] Interesting fact from the archives >>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:47:48 +0200 >> >>Last Thursday, I encountered in an old file the name of a hamlet or >>townland >>near Nijmegen: Tienakker. Roughly translated: Tenacres. This is a strong >>indication that the akker (acre) has once been used as a unit of area in >>our >>part of the country. The akker was roughly 0.5 ha. There are also villages >>in Germany with names like Vieracker. Now the akker is any field for >>crop-growing in The Netherlands and Germany. >>I wonder wat the BWMA would say: THE DUTCH AND THE GERMANS USE THE BRITISH >>ACRE!!!! >> >>Han >>Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Access Hotmail from your mobile now. >http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Click here. >
