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5 Sep 2024 03:20:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about imperial units  
From: Doctor John
Date: 9 Nov 2009 14:24:34
Message: <4af86c72@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   How about imperial units. Can you write "square feet" as "ft^2" or
>>> something like that?
> 
>> In a similar question, where you are, is "ten square meters" the same as 
>> "ten meters square"?
> 
>   Never heard of anyone using "ten meters square". Doesn't even make much
> sense.
> 
Sure it does. Ten square metres is an area of two metres by five metres,
an area ten metres square is ten by ten = 100 m^2

John
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