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> a chain (66 feet) × a furlong (660 feet). That's a furrow width x a furrow length. I imagine our agrarian roots have something to do with this. Then you ca
by timewizard 2y ago
> a chain (66 feet) × a furlong (660 feet).
That's a furrow width x a furrow length. I imagine our agrarian roots have something to do with this. Then you can easily find tables for expected food production from 1 acre of your crops.
> weird rectangular cuboid
A good 1:10 crop row.
> m³ is already a pretty hard to visualize unit
1000 1L bottles doesn't seem that hard to visualize.
- pizzafeelsright 2y agoAcres is easy enough to visualize. About 90 yards of an American football field. Whatever the perimeter the area is about the same. Square is great in a science book but land and reality is easier with divisions by 2,3,4,6,8 etc
- runarberg 2y agoThis is just like the other weird American units, it works much better in the specific case it was designed around, but fail really fast and really bad in other contexts. If you are a farmer with 26 acres of field that need to be irrigated the equivalence of 1 foot of water every 2 weeks throughout the dry season which is expected to last 3 months, it is easy to calculate that you need 26 × 6 acre feet of water for that. But ones you use volume for literally anything else the flaws of the unit become very apparent.