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In 1620, the clergyman Edmund Gunter developed a method of surveying land accurately with low technology equipment, using what became known as Gunter's chain. This was 66 feet (22 yards) long and from the practice of using his chain, the word transferred to the actual measured unit. His chain had 100 links, and the link is used as a subdivision of the chain as a unit of length.
A rectangle of land one furlong in length and one chain in width has an area of one acre. It is sometimes suggested that this was a medieval parcel of land capable of being worked by one man and supporting one family, but there is no documentary support for this assertion, and it would in any case have predated Gunter's work.
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What is twenty two yards in meters?
22 yards = 20.12 metres (to 2 dp)
How many 24 yards are in a foot?
A yard is three feet, so twenty-four yards would be three times twenty four feet, or seventy two feet. The would then be 1/72 of these lengths in a foot.
How do you spell twenty two?
Twenty two
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Two hundred twenty-two billion, two hundred twenty-two million, two hundred twenty-two thousand, two hundred twenty-two.
What is 222222?
Two hundred twenty two thousand, two hundred twenty two.
