Acre - etymology
Acre is a common unit of measurement for agricultural lands. Its origin is explained as follows.
The word "acre" is derived from old English æcer (originally meaning "open field", cognate to German Acker, Latin ager and old Greek agros).
The acre was selected as approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day. This explains one definition as the area of a rectangle with sides of length one chain and one furlong. A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often. The word "furlong" itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.
1 acre = 4046.86 sq.m.
1 hectare = 100x 100 sq.m.
1 acre = 0.4046 hectare
[ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre]
The word "acre" is derived from old English æcer (originally meaning "open field", cognate to German Acker, Latin ager and old Greek agros).
The acre was selected as approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day. This explains one definition as the area of a rectangle with sides of length one chain and one furlong. A long narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often. The word "furlong" itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long.
1 acre = 4046.86 sq.m.
1 hectare = 100x 100 sq.m.
1 acre = 0.4046 hectare
[ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre]
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