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A curious Irish length unit (2.2m), or???
I am house-hunting in Ireland, and an agent has sent me floor-plans of a
house that looks interesting. But all the measurements are wrong, in that "1m" seems to represent a distance of about 2.2 metres. I asked the agent and he said this was for "reference" only. Which is, of course, not a proper answer. My first thought (cynic that I am) was that there'd been some sort of planning scam. But this doesn't seem to be so, because the overall floor area appears to be stated accurately. (Obviously being in discrepancy with the stated linear measures). Is some weird unit being used??? If so, I don't know what it might be. A 1/14 of a second of latitude doesn't sound right. Or maybe measurements are altered by a factor of sqrt 5 so that rooms appear to have 1/5 of their actual area? But that doesn't sound right either! I mean, why on earth do it? So what's the reason for the curious measurements? I can't quite suss this one out! Cheers, Chris |
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