• Yesterday I searched for how much an acre is, only to find this: https://www.wagrown.com/what-does-an-acre-look-like

    1,584 potatoes
    The amount of potatoes needed to make a line from one end to the other end of an acre.

    And Wikipedia made it sound even funnier to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre

    It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, 1⁄640 of a square mile, 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet, and approximately 4,047 m2, or about 40% of a hectare.

    Or with rods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)

    The ‘perfect acre’ is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet (a chain) wide (220 yards by 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods by 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.

      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        6 days ago

        Agreed, this seems like a 100% completely honest attempt to be a relatable reference and clearly has no humor injected into it at all.

        edit: 1 acre is equivalent to 4 ‘roods’ lmao that’s wonderful.