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See Weight for detail of mass/weight distinction and conversion. Avoirdupois is a system of mass based on a pound of 16 ounces, while Troy weight is the system of mass where 12 troy ounces equals one troy pound. The symbol g 0 is used to denote standard gravity in order to avoid confusion with the (upright) g symbol for gram.
default conversion combinations SI: square kilometre: km2 Q712226: km 2: US spelling: square kilometer: 1.0 km 2 (0.39 sq mi) km2 sqmi; square hectometre: hm2 Q35852: hm 2: US spelling: square hectometer: 1.0 hm 2 (2.5 acres) square decametre: dam2 Q23931040: dam 2: US spelling: square dekameter: 1.0 dam 2 (1,100 sq ft) square metre: m2 Q25343 ...
Tables of conversion between Jersey vergées and English acres from an 1891 almanac. A vergée (French pronunciation:, alternative spellings vergie, vrégie) is a unit of land area, a quarter of the old French arpent. The term derives from Latin virga (rod). [1] Compare French verge (yard).
One acre equals 1 ⁄ 640 (0.0015625) square mile, 4,840 square yards, 43,560 square feet, [2] or about 4,047 square metres (0.4047 hectares) (see below).While all modern variants of the acre contain 4,840 square yards, there are alternative definitions of a yard, so the exact size of an acre depends upon the particular yard on which it is based.
The closest thing to a formal area unit was the yoke (Hebrew: צמד tsemed) [22] (sometimes translated as acre), which referred to the amount of land that a pair of yoked oxen could plough in a single day; in Mesopotamia the standard estimate for this was 6,480 square cubits, which is roughly equal to a third of an acre. [9]
The Jennings Creek wildfire raging along the New Jersey-New York border stretched to 3,000 acres as of Monday morning, ... The 181-acre fire, which initially threatened 55 structures, was ...
Sep. 2—The Game Preserve fire that began around 2:30 p.m. Friday afternoon has now engulfed a reported 3,000 acres in Walker County along FM 247. Daniel Patterson, PIO for Texas A&M Forest ...
Following is the master list of conversion data used by Module: ... acres =acre are =a decare =daa foot2 ... 5.520392185/3000: