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  2. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A square 10 perches du roi on each side. Certain U.S. states have their own official definitions for the (square) arpent, which vary slightly from this value. Local: perche (ordinaire) carrée: 400 ~42.21 m 2 ~50.48 sq yd This square perch was used locally. It is a square 20 pieds du roi on each side. vergée (ordinaire) 10 000 ~1055 m 2 ~1262 ...

  3. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  4. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    = 6.4516 × 1010 m 2: square mile: sq mi ≡ 1 mi × 1 mi ≡ 2.589 988 110 336 × 10 6 m 2: square mile (US Survey) sq mi ≡ 1 mi (US) × 1 mi (US) ≈ 2.589 998 47 × 10 6 m 2: square rod/pole/perch: sq rd ≡ 1 rd × 1 rd = 25.292 852 64 m 2: square yard (International) sq yd ≡ 1 yd × 1 yd ≡ 0.836 127 36 m 2: stremma: ≡ 1000 m 2 ...

  5. Pertica (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The linear unit in Italy was about 3 meters, area unit contained about 600 square meters. After switching to the metric system, the unit became equal to 1 decare. [3] Viennese pertica is on top, Rovereto pertica at the bottom (Palazzo Pretorio, Rovereto ) The regional area values significantly varied per province (in square meters): [10 ...

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    30.25 square yards. A square rod is also known as a square pole or a square perch. Sometimes the word 'square' is omitted when the context clearly indicates that the subject is area, notably so in the case of British allotment gardens. Rood: 1,012 m 2: One quarter of an acre; one 'furlong' in length by one 'rod' in width; 40 square 'rods'. The ...

  7. Vergée - Wikipedia

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    The surveying perch measured 22 French feet. In French North America, it was also equal to 25 square perches, but the royal perch of 18 feet was used, yielding a vergée of 8100 square feet (854.7 m 2) In Guernsey, a vergée (Guernésiais: vergie) is 17,640 square feet (1,639 m 2). It is 40 (square) Guernsey perches.

  8. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains , or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).

  9. Module:Convert/documentation/conversion data - Wikipedia

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    For example, the NIST document has 1 square mile = 2.589 988 E+06 square meters. The convert template has 1 square mile = 2,589,988.110336 square meters. Values for the fundamental physical constants come from the NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty, either the 2010 or the 2014 version. The 2018 version is in preparation.