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Date:         Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:00:15 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon Digest - 30 Jan 2006 - Special issue (#2006-83)
Comments: To: Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@uws.edu.au>
In-Reply-To:  <F2F8E6C0606BCA4790069652B051E24002F40E73@BONHAM.AD.UWS.EDU.AU>
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Two gallons to a peck, four pecks in a bushel.

There are 16.5 feet in a rod, 4 rods in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, 8 furlongs in a mile, 3 miles in a league.

An acre is 1 chain by 10 chains, or 22 yards by 220 yards, 640 acres is 1 square mile.

At 60 mph you are going 1 mile per minute. It all fits together very neatly.

On 1/30/06, Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@uws.edu.au> wrote: > > > > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:25:49 +1300 > From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> > Subject: Re: Metric this, metric that > > Exactly. > > And every metric unit is a multiple of 10, 100 or 1000. Compare: > > 1mi - ?yd > 1 mi - ?ft > 1yd - 3ft > 1ft - 12in > > Volume? Area? > > How about cubits, chains, furlongs, pecks? > -- > > > ....and how about the rod or perch ? (I sometimes see it on old land or > property surveys) > > 1 rod or perch = 5 1/2 feet from memory...I mean, WTF is that all > about...:-) > The peck I am unfamiliar with...can you enlighten me? > > Cheers, > Steve O > NSW Australia >

-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com


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