Ugh. Where did 660 feet come from? Where did 66 feet come from? A line of potatoes (linear) to measure an acre (area)? A strip of land 43,560 x 1 ft is an acre requiring 87k+ potatoes.

Also, 18 homes wont fit on an acre.

This graphic is fucking awful.

Meanwhile, Europeans use hectares. Or a hundred ares. An are is 100 square metres, so a hectare is 100*100 or 10000 square metres or 1/100 of a square kilometer.

Thanks I hate it

CADmonkey, DemBoSain, and HjFun are correct in this case. 43,560 sq. ft., or 4046.86 sq. meters.

Coffeebiscuit presumably dropped a zero accidentally.

I have a 3/4 acre lot. So it's like my yard and the part of my neighbor's yard I can see. Easy

Yea but if it's cold my pole is shorter

I remember it just as 1x10 chains which is still esoteric and just to check the math on the conversion factor of 1 acre = 43,560 sq. ft.

What the fuck's a furlong???

edit: Google says it's 1/8 of a mile... 201.17m for my SI people.

I thought acre was English for the Spanish word "hectárea". I guess I was wrong. Anyways, my mind always goes blank when people use these units. I can only understand once I hear squared meters or kilometers.

Edit: dude, an hectare is just 10k squared meters. Chef's kiss. Meanwhile an acre is 4 neighboring houses from that Lemmy's user, or 5000 potatoes spread on a field.

A Hectare is just 100m X 100m. So about two football pitches next to each other.

(A metre is about the same as a yard).

Is it called that because you'd be all acky after all that hard work? An ache'er?

but what if my couple of oxen is faster than yours?

Close, it's 4840 square yards not square feet,.

The IKEA parking lots near me are multiple acres.

Actually it's pretty much exactly the main play area of a football field, minus 5 yards on either side, or 10 yards on one side(acre in red, association football field in blue): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AAcre_superimposed_over_football_fields.svg

The unit apparently represents the approximate area of land that one person with a team of oxen could plow in a single day.

Funny enough "about 2/3 the size of a football field" works about as well for places that use that word for soccer too

A FIFA standard field is 1.764 acres (off by 17.6%) and an NFL standard field is 1.322 (off by 11.9%)

For those of us that regularly plow large tracts of land using manual tools, this is an extremely useful unit. Anyways, if that isn't a usual activity for you, an acre is an area of 10 square chains, or roughly an area 1 mile long and 8 feet wide.

without brackets this is misleading:

a = (10m)² = 100m²

ha = (100m)² = 10,000m²

km² = (1000m)² = 1,000,000m²