** Reply to note from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 26 Oct 2003 08:55:15 EST > In a message dated 2003-10-26 01:29:45 Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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 > An excellent practice; it makes FFU look even stranger and more confusing > than it already is. > > cm
True but it is a bit of a furphy. An acre is simply ten square chains and there is no requirement that the total area be a square. You can generate irrational numbers in metric just as easily such as by drawing a square having an area of 10 square metres. -- Jon Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer of cross-platform software for UNIX, Windows and OS/2 U.S. agent for Triton Technologies International Ltd http://www.triton.vg/
