On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:59:49 Bob van der Poel wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:11:30AM -0500, TheOther wrote: > > > Let's see, there's 640 acres to a section, and a section of > > > land is 1 mile by 1 mile, or a 1 mile square. > > > > Incredible, those units ! > > > > So a square piece of one acre would have a size of > > 1 mile / sqrt(640). That square root is not an integer. > > > > Is this the definition of 1 acre ? > > In old days (long before you and me) an acre was the amount of land a man > and an ox could plow in a day :) One day in the distant future the USA > will adopt metric. I still find it astonishing that with all their ideas of freedom, they insist on keeping this imperial system :) > Or not. Mind you, we did here in Canada 20+ (30?) years > ago and we still talk about miles, acres, pounds and inches. Instead of a > metric or imperial system we have a bit of both. Mostly for practical reasons, as I understand... with a lot of products coming from our southern neighbours... But yes, Canada is a bit confused about which measurement system to use. It gets even more confusing in the french part here ;) sincerely, Marije _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
