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Re: pic: FRC 1002's Shop
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5.5 yards make one rod. Four rods make one chain. Ten chains make one furlong. Eight furlongs make one mile. So one mile is 3 x 5.5 x 4 x 10 x 8 = 5280 feet. One acre is ten square chains. So one acre = 10 x (3 x 5.5 x 4)^2 = 43,560 square feet. 90,000 square feet is therefore a little more than two acres (2.06612). One square mile is 5280^2 = 27,878,400 square feet, so 90,000 square feet is about 0.00323 square miles. No where near 18. <edit:add> 18 square miles is also half a township (see Land Ordinance of 1785); a township contains 36 square miles, and each square mile contains 640 acres, so half a township is 18 x 640 = 11,520 acres </edit> And as Sean also pointed out, a 90,000 sq.ft. building is huge. My company could put a good size motor factory in that much space, and use it to make millions of motors per year. Bill Beatty could probably build a robot factory in less than half of that space and use it to produce enough Beast-clones to sell one to each FRC team, on four weeks lead time. If he wanted to, which certainly hope he doesn't. 9000 sq.ft. is a more realistic size for a robot shop. Last edited by Richard Wallace : 30-10-2006 at 19:11. |
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