It's 1/640th of a square mile
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in europe we have a and hekta, a is 10m^2 and hekta 100m^2 and km^2 which is 1000m^2 ofc
without brackets this is misleading:
a = (10m)² = 100m²
ha = (100m)² = 10,000m²
km² = (1000m)² = 1,000,000m²
Also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica
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Is 200 ft by 200 ft equal to one acre? A piece of land that measures 200 ft by 200 ft is the equivalent of 40,000 square feet. One acre contains 43,560 square feet, making the 200 x 200 ft land equal to approximately 0.918 acres.
Gee, if only someone would come up with a system that properly ordered scales of measurement in a logical and sensible way...
Gee, if only someone would come up with a system that properly ordered scales of measurement in a logical and sensible way…
No use, even if somebody come up with such a system, adoption of such would be impossible due to "this is the way we always did it"
Yeah it looks stupid when you do it like that, almost the same thing as if I told you there was 3,280 feet in a kilometer. Feet are not the base unit here, the mile is.
Asked Google again. Is this it?
How many acres are in a mile by a mile? 1 Square Mile = 640 Acres. There are 640 acres in a square mile, because an acre is defined as an area of 66 feet to 660 feet and equals to 66 * 660 = 43560 square feet and one mile is 5280 feet and one sq.
Because it isn't really helping it either.
Ignore everything about feet. That's the different base unit. Idk how else to describe this, they're using "defined" when they mean "described"? The mile is the base unit. Feet are the base unit of a different system.
Well, there's your problem. That the base units don't fit into each other neatly.
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