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[Ashraf Manjappara <ashraf.manjappara(--nospam--at)gmail.com>]

One acre is 4046 square meter which is equal to 100 cents.

On 23/12/05, Bill Allen <T.W.Allen(--nospam--at)cox.net> wrote:

I remember the size of an acre in a left handed sort of way.

For some reason, I remember that there are 640 acres in a square mile.

T. William (Bill) Allen, S.E.
ALLEN DESIGNS
Consulting Structural Engineers


-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl Richardson [mailto:h.d.richardson(--nospam--at)shaw.ca ]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:35 AM
To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org
Subject: Re: SI Metric


Fellow engineers,

<snip>

       As for the acre, it's ten square Gunther's Chains, or 66*66*10=43560

square feet.

Regards,

H. Daryl Richardson




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