yards), or> > 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
> about 4 ha (hectares). You got that right in your second calculation,where
Agreed, I did goofup with 220 yd x 220 yd; indeed this is (4840 x 10) i.e. 10 acre.> 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.) >
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.Since I ignored (It would actually by 0.0151 square yards short of an acre), Bill might have thought of reminding me of an earlier instance, when I mentioned the distance between *wickets of cricket pitch* could be termed 20 m.
Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
20031027/13:26 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: "Mighty Chimp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:27300] RE: Interesting fact from the archives Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:47:03 -0500
----- 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. > >> > > > >
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