----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2003-10-25 22:26 Subject: [USMA:27289] RE: Interesting fact from the archives
> 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. I would just ignore all that old gibberish and just think of a acre as 200 m x 20 m or 4 000 m^2. > > 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. A British acre would be 200 m x 20 m, or 4 000 m^2. > >> > >> 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!!!! Of course they would say that! But I know they would never mention the the difference of the 5000 m^2 Dutch/German acre and the 4000 m^2 British acre. They heavily downplay the differences in the US and British imperial units. > >>> > >>> Han > >>> Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands > >>> > >> > >> _________________________________________________________________ > >> Access Hotmail from your mobile now. > >> http://server1.msn.co.in/sp03/mobilesms/ Click here. > >> > > > >
