this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
923 points (98.3% liked)

tumblr

4741 readers
219 users here now

Welcome to /c/tumblr, a place for all your tumblr screenshots and news.

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Must be tumblr related. This one is kind of a given.

  4. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

  5. No unnecessary negativity. Just because you don't like a thing doesn't mean that you need to spend the entire comment section complaining about said thing. Just downvote and move on.


Sister Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

It's 1/640th of a square mile

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

in europe we have a and hekta, a is 10m^2 and hekta 100m^2 and km^2 which is 1000m^2 ofc

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

without brackets this is misleading:

a = (10m)² = 100m²

ha = (100m)² = 10,000m²

km² = (1000m)² = 1,000,000m²

[–] wieson@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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...

[–] sighofannoyance@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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"

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sagifurius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] wieson@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well, there's your problem. That the base units don't fit into each other neatly.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›