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#measurements

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Sally Strange

Today I learned that an acre, today defined as 43,560 square feet, was originally a measure of the area a yoke of oxen could plow in one day. Wikipedia says that would be 8 oxen. Anyway, that's why an acre is not square, but was traditionally a rectangle: one chain (66 ft) by one furlong (660 ft). An acre that was square would be ~208.7 ft on each edge

#TIL#Measurements
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Sam at BLAG

@hildabast I saved your post last year to come back to, and thought of it again today when I read this in the Publi Fluor book. (Alt text contains a transciption of the paragraph from the book pictured.)

The use of Brussels isn't completely surprising, as the book is located in the city, but Lebanon felt a bit random.

For more on the book/project, take a look at the bl.ag online article here: bl.ag/peeling-back-the-layers-

Paragraph of text from a book that reads: "Figures for annual global production of self-adhesive vinyl film for decoration and lettering are very difficult to obtain, as for any petroleum product. But a realistic order of magnitude is two hundred million square meters, which would cover more than the entire area of the Brussels-Capital Region every year, and approximately the entire surface of Lebanon dating back to the beginning of vinyl production around a century ago."
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