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Old 10-02-2006, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by cmac2012 View Post
A hectare is 10,000 square meters, or 2.47 meters.

Not sure of the origin of acre but I believe a section (one square mile) is 625 acres, so 25 acres on the edge of a square mile. Sounds about right since an acre is a square roughly 208 feet long on each side. 208 x 25 = 5200.

I had a hard time getting the button to chose country to work but eventually pressed "English." I got hectares.
Closer still.

A township = 36 square miles (or sections), a square mile = 1 section = 640 acres. Thus, an acre is about 43k ft^2 or 209 ft on a square side. Whodafuk thought that was a good idea, I don't know.

A hectare is 100 m on a side resulting in 10,000 m^2 or about 2.5 acres.

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