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Hello, I'm just here to gripe about "tennis court sized walls". Besides being a stupid measurement (1 tennis court equals 260.87 m2), a tennis court is a horizo
by jeffrallen 3y ago
Hello, I'm just here to gripe about "tennis court sized walls". Besides being a stupid measurement (1 tennis court equals 260.87 m2), a tennis court is a horizontal thing, and is wholly unsuitable for giving the approximate size of a vertical thing.
- carapace 3y agoYes, thank you, it was making me twitchy. A tennis court sized wall made of bricks is just a large meta-brick. Whew! Cheers! That was gonna bug me all day (but I don't like to quip on HN, y'know?)
- seydor 3y agoalso it would make little sense to build walls around it
- drawkward 3y agoI can easily imagine the area of a tennis court, far moreso than the size given (in square meters, no less! <s> I live in a country that uses Freedom Units! </s>). Then, in my head, I can imagine what this area would look like as a wall.
- greggsy 3y agoI usually see high fences before I see the court, so it makes sense to me.
- chankstein38 3y agoI clicked on the article because I was like "What the hell is a 'tennis court sized wall'?" so maybe just good bait
- hef19898 3y agoHow much is that in football fields?
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoIt looks to be about 13.2 eagle wingspans in length
- LegitShady 3y agoJust look up the tennis court to elephant exchange rate. Simple.
- hef19898 3y agoI don't know the current tiger to shark rate, unfortunately...