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A quarter chain, or 25 links, measures 16 feet 6 inches (5.03 m) and thus measures a rod (or pole). Ten chains measure a furlong and 80 chains measure a statute mile. [1] Gunter's chain reconciled two seemingly incompatible systems: the traditional English land measurements, based on the number four, and decimals based on the number 10.
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A chain 66 feet (20 m) long, with intermediate measurements indicated, was chosen for the purpose, and is called Gunter's chain. The length of the chain chosen, 66 feet (20 m), being called a chain gives a unit easily converted to area. [9] Therefore, a parcel of 10 square chains gives 1 acre.
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The link (usually abbreviated as "l.", "li." or "lnk."), sometimes called a Gunter’s link, is a unit of length formerly used in many English-speaking countries. In US customary units modern definition, the link is exactly 66 ⁄ 100 of a US survey foot , [ 1 ] or exactly 7.92 inches or 20.1168 cm.
I found this site telling us that Gunter's chain (or just "chain") is a unit of length equal to 22 yd. It also defines the terms engineer's chain and Rathbone's chain as measurement instruments of length 100 ft and 33 ft. Dondervogel 2 20:07, 21 July 2018 (UTC) And Google books tells us about 4 different chains Gunter chain: 66 ft
Following discussion at talk: chain (unit), it is proposed that this article be split so that it contains only material about Gunter's Chain. Material about surveying chains in general and non-UK chains in particular are to be moved to a new article. Any comments by Wednesday 12:00 UTC please, as I believe that it to be a non-controversial change.