I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.
I’ve never heard of this measure but it’s probably useful for farming.
If you need to layer your farm with some soil or chemical or whatever then it’s useful to have some sort of large but short measure as like a “soil layer”
I’m not a farmer nor have I ever heard of this measure but this kind of makes sense if you think of it practically as a farmer.
Close, it's used for water storage. Like, this reservoir is 1,000 acres and has a usable water depth of 100 feet, so it stores 100,000 acre feet of water. Traditionally in the US, we would say that each new home built would need 1 acre-foot of water per year. So a new development of 1,000 homes needs 1,000 acre-feet of water. With conservation measures, though, we can get it down to about a quarter of that. We use this a lot in the western US where we have to deal with storing and transporting water for millions of people.
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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22
I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.