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Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Before the enactment of the metric system, many countries in Europe used their own official acres. In France, the traditional unit of area was the arpent carré, a measure based on the Roman system of land measurement. The acre was used only in Normandy (and neighbouring places outside its traditional borders), but its value varied greatly across Normandy, ranging from 3,632 to 9,725 square metres, with 8,172 square metres being the most frequent value.[clarification needed] But inside the same pays of Normandy, for instance in pays de Caux, the farmers (still in the 20th century) made the difference between the grande acre (68 ares, 66 centiares) and the petite acre (56 to 65 ca).[50] The Normandy acre was usually divided in 4 vergées (roods) and 160 square perches, like the English acre.
Bitch it was the romans who "invented" most of the units.
And unless I see y'all adopting metric time in the near future I frankly don't want to hear about how oh so stupid anyone who isn't doing metric is.
Plus there's just the idiocy of it being base 10 when base 36 is so much better, uses the whole keyspace of numerals and latin alphabet letters, "10" is a perfect square that's the product of two other perfect squares, plus "10" has 9 factors, it has a number of factors equal to one of the perfect squares that it factors into!
Huh I didn't realise there were people who might actually prefer imperial. I thought it was just sort of grandfathered in for many people. To me metric just makes more intuitive sense. But I'll use both.
Metric time I don't care for and I don't think anyone is seriously using.
That is actually helpful. It's easy to convert from Angstroms (10^-10 m) to meters, to kilometers (10^3 m). That means it's all just basic arithmetic. 27 - 2*(10 + 3) = 27 - 26 = 1. So, it's 2*10^1 square km, or 20 square km.