As the thread title says. When validating the values there it doesn't specify the unit measure. Havard's HoI Hacking site also does not indicate the unit measure.
Originally posted by Bolt
probably correct lenin as that is the in-game measure.
I like the wacky english system rather than the rational and logical metric system. Which in my case is an anomalous preference.
Originally posted by LeninsTomb
Of course, the metric system is naturally more logical, as the english system is based on totally arbitrary sets of measurement. But I'll always take miles over kilometers any day...... Oh yeah, and pounds, pounds are a far better unit of measurement than KG, IMHO.![]()
Originally posted by Bolt
. What's cooler than a 1/4 pounder? [/B]
Originally posted by LeninsTomb
Of course, the metric system is naturally more logical, as the english system is based on totally arbitrary sets of measurement. But I'll always take miles over kilometers any day...... Oh yeah, and pounds, pounds are a far better unit of measurement than KG, IMHO.![]()
An acre is precisely 1/10 of a square furlong. As a furlong is 660 feet, a square furlong is 6602=435600 square feet and an acre is 43560 square feet. There are 122=144 square inches in a square foot, so an acre is 43560 times 144 square inches, or exactly 6272640 square inches.
Notice that a (Gunter) chain is 66 ft (1/10 of a furlong). An acre is thus the area of a rectangle whose length is one furlong and whose width is one chain.
Historically, the relation is reversed: The furlong ("furrow-long") was a basic unit so strongly favored by the Tudors that they redefined the mile so that it would be exactly 8 furlongs. This statute mile of 8 furlongs or 5280 ft thus displaced the previous London mile of 5000 ft, which had a definition similar to that of the Roman mile of 1000 strides (double-paces) of 5 Roman feet each. The acre was thus defined to be 1/10 of a square furlong well before Edmund Gunter introduced the chain (in 1620) as the "width" of an acre. Gunter's invention of the chain [divided into 100 links of exactly 7.92 inches] actually made it much easier to work out land areas expressed in acres.
A Gunter chain is also 4 poles. Nowadays, a pole is an odd unit of exactly 16½ feet. However, it is a much older unit which was defined as exactly 15 Saxon feet (also called "Drusus feet"). A furlong was exactly 600 Saxon feet or 40 poles (a Saxon foot was thus exactly 11/10 of a modern foot), which made a lot more sense in the old days.
So, the original furlong was the Saxon equivalent of the ancient Greek stadion, which was similarly divided into 600 feet (the length of a Greek foot varied from one city-state to the next). On the other hand, the related Roman stadium was 1/8 of a Roman mile, which may explain why the Tudors wanted 8 furlongs to their [statute] mile...
What's cooler than a 1/4 pounder?
Originally posted by Riso
A Royale with Cheese of course.