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minus-square@prime_number_314159link5•10 months agoFor those of us that regularly plow large tracts of land using manual tools, this is an extremely useful unit. Anyways, if that isn’t a usual activity for you, an acre is an area of 10 square chains, or roughly an area 1 mile long and 8 feet wide.
minus-square@droanslink1•edit-210 months ago 1 mile long and 8 feet wide. That might be accurate but that’s like the worst way to imagine the area. You could have just said about 220 feet in each direction.
minus-square@TempermentalAnomalylink2•10 months ago8 miles long, 1 foot wide… I’m pretty sure that’s worse.
For those of us that regularly plow large tracts of land using manual tools, this is an extremely useful unit. Anyways, if that isn’t a usual activity for you, an acre is an area of 10 square chains, or roughly an area 1 mile long and 8 feet wide.
That might be accurate but that’s like the worst way to imagine the area.
You could have just said about 220 feet in each direction.
8 miles long, 1 foot wide… I’m pretty sure that’s worse.