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minus-squareunderwire212@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up12·10 months agoIf American, use sports related analogies. About 2/3 of a football field.
minus-squareTechnus@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-210 months agoActually 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.
minus-squareneopenguin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoCame here for this. The whole field is ~1 1/3 acres, so if you think of the whole field as 4, 1/3 acre sections, an acre is ~ 3/4 of a football field.
minus-squareZoidberg@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoUnless it comes from space. Then it’s measures in Texas sizes.
If American, use sports related analogies. About 2/3 of a football field.
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.
Came here for this. The whole field is ~1 1/3 acres, so if you think of the whole field as 4, 1/3 acre sections, an acre is ~ 3/4 of a football field.
Unless it comes from space. Then it’s measures in Texas sizes.
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