Dear Bill, Brij, and All, My inclination, when I (rarely) do a back conversion to old measures, is not to use decimal fractions. Old measures developed and favored fractions other than decimals.
In the example shown here, I would suggest firstly that an acre is a furlong (220 yards) long by 4 rods wide (22 yards); this gives an area of 4840 square yards. If an area of 4840 square yards was in the shape of a square it would have sides of (approximately): 69 yards 1 foot 8 and 67/128 inches on 26/10/03 3:09 AM, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. >> >
