pic: FRC 1002's Shop

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

90,000 is NOT 18 square miles!!! It's only 300 by 300 feet (which is still huge, a football field either way).
90 sq. feet is only about 9.5x9.5 feet, which is hardly big enough to fit a few people, and no tools.
900 or 9,000 are both plausable numbers.

3 feet make one yard.
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.