Joseph Meehan ) said...

Lets see 10mm = 1cm etc. Or 12 inches = 1 foot, 3 foot = 1 yard
1753.33 yards = 1 statue mile (nautical miles are different) how many acres
in a sq mile? add in rods, oz, pounds, quarts etc. What an illogical mess.

.... and don't forget that a "hundredweight" is 114 pounds!


If one needs a simple rule-of-thumb conversion in order to get an idea
of what a metric area is, there are about 10 square feet in a square metre
(it is actually 10.7584, but 10 is easy for a ball park figure).

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