Sunday morning special

Re: Sorry, my computer clock in wrong, : ' >

Hmmmm

This one took a bit of work;-) I first wanted to find an acre to measure, but there aren't many of those around here, so I started with the distance from my computer to the refrigerator times the number of times I visit it each evening. Next, I took the distance from the back door to my shop in microns and subtracted the angular velocity of the rim of a 27/64th diameter bit in a router with the speed set at minimum, times a constant derived from the angle of the moon at midnight divided by its phase. Taking this answer, adding it to the first one, and correcting it for the magnetic deviation from true north at my lattitude and the density of water at 372.5 degrees K yelded an answer of 107.77145, which when divided by Skinner's constant (in this case e * π) yields an answer of 12.65 perches square.

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There are no exact dimension for an acre, just like a board foot, you can have various dimensions for length and width (thickness when talking about a board foot. I could tell you what an acre is equivalent to in square inches, feet, yards, chains, rods, roods miles, meters and uaras. But it is probably a little to early.

One of the answers is 5645 ______ equals 1 acre

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10 rods by 10 rods

glc

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boy did I screw up my math, it's way to early here, 160 sq. rods / yeah way to early. perchs = rods

Re: Sorry, my computer clock in wrong, : ' >

One chain by one furlong

Re: I would not think so

I understand the chain measurement, 66'. I'm not in tune with a furlong or whatever you called it. Since I was asking for a square measurement of an acre, 66' is not it.

Thanks for playing,

Dale

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Thanks for playing but I asked for the measurements of a SQUARE acre.

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The way I learned it, an acre is about as far as you can throw a rock by the same distance or about 70 yards by 70 yards. Actually its a few square yards less than that product.

BobH

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So is a rod 16' or is that 80'? Without Googling, I'm not sure. But I still think your answer(s) are not correct. If your answers are correct, it won't be the first time I'm wrong, only the first time today, : ' >.....Dale

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You are VERY close, care to nail it.......Dale

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As people sometimes tell me, like my son of instance. You can take something simple and make it complicated, : ' >

Thank for playing,

Dale

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Hi Dale, a rod is 16-1/2 feet (Gunters measurement, 4 rods to the chain, 80 chains to the mile,160 sq. rods to the acre) A rod is the same as a perch, Dan's answer. (the sq. root of 160) X 16.5 will give you ___.____ ft. I must confess, I know the sq. footage of an acre, but I had to use the calculator / google to get the Gunter's measure. The (few)surveying classes I took were a loooooong time ago.

glc

Re: Okay you are 99.99% right

I can think Gary for cleaning my measurements up for me. The way I was taught, an acre is define as one chain by ten chains, 10 sq. chs. or 66' x 660 = 43560sq. ft. The sq.rt. of that is 208.71. So...208.71'/side was the answer I was looking for. The way I refigured Dan's answer is 208.72, : ' > I'll buy land from Dan, as long as he does not price adjust. : ' >

Thanks for playing all and again thanks to Gary for enlighting me....Dale

Further reasearch..

I did more checking, and I would say that Verne, with One chain (66 ft.) wide by One Furlong (10 chains - 660 ft) long. Hit the Nail on the Head (woodworking refence) also.

I sure do like the way WoodCentral leads me to explore things, what a wonderful site. Thanks again to Ellis and the rest of the folks who keep the site running.

glc

Re: Well yes, but...

Verne did not give the dimensions of a square acre. Once again though, I learned a new term, fur-something.

Thanks all for playing,

Dale

Just call it furlong fur short.....

Ducking and running;-)

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An acre is equal to 0.001562 square miles, 4 roods, 10 square chains, 160 square rods, 4840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, 62,72,640 square inches, 4047 square meters and 5645 square uaras

208'x208'

To tell the truth, I really don't know for certain. I've heard 210' x 210', so many chains x so many chains, so many rods x so many rods etc. until I'm thoroughly confused.

...and I used to clear land by the acre. Sheeesh! Wonder how many acres I've cleared for free?

Basil

Boy, Do I feel dumb

I knew it a Square acre, but I was looking at fulong and saw the that definition of an acre. I put my fingers in gear without engaging my brain.

glc

Re: How many times have...

I done that too, Gary....Thanks for playing and helping yesterday.

Dale, one tooth less than yesterday.

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How many feet in a mile? 5280. So, take the square root of (5280 squared divided by 640). 640 acres in a sq mile. Answer is 208.71'

To find the length of one side of a 10 acre square, just divide by 64 in the above equation. (660')