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Re: More and more weight/mass Units-STONES

Gee, I don't know. Everything here looks good to me except that
business of 10 sq chains = 1 acre. Someone must have goofed up on this
one because that's looking sort of like base ten, and we certainly
wouldn't want any of that creeping in.

Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D. Phone/voice-mail: 419-358-3270
Professor of Chemistry & Physics FAX: 419-358-3323
Chairman, Science Department E-Mail edmiston@bluffton.edu
Bluffton College
280 West College Avenue
Bluffton, OH 45817



-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Cartwright [SMTP:exit60@IA4U.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 6:24 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: More and more weight/mass Units-STONES

Barlow is right. Rod, pole and perch are all names for a distance of
5.5 yards or 16.5 feet or 1 quarter-chain. It is a major component of
the land survey system used in most of the US.

16 sq rods (or sq poles or sq perches) = 1 sq chain
10 sq chains = 1 acre
640 acres = 1 section (sq mile)
36 sections = 1 township

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Larry
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Larry Cartwright <exit60@ia4u.net>
Physics and Physical Science Teacher
Charlotte HS, Charlotte MI USA
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"Daniel L. MacIsaac" wrote:

...ok, now what's a pole? One of our faculty is an amateur
geneologist
and his ancestors write deeds measuring land claim distances in poles
in the 1800's in AZ.
Dan M

12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
220 yards = 1 furlong
8 furlongs = 1 mile.
regards,
sarma.

You may add to the table:
22 yards = 1 chain
Brian McInnes

...could a pole be another name for a rod?? WBN
Barlow Newbolt