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[-] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

1 mile long and 8 feet wide.

That might be accurate but that's like the worst way to imagine the area.

You could have just said about 220 feet in each direction.

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

8 miles long, 1 foot wide... I'm pretty sure that's worse.

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