Same when people use freedom units in general
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I’ve spent a lot of time working at farmers markets and so have spent a lot of time both under a 10x10 foot canopy (EZ Up) tent and looking at long rows of the same. So I imagine both square footage and distance in feet in terms of how many EZ Ups.
A 5000 sq ft house is 50 EZ Ups. A 700 sq ft apartment is 7 EZ Ups. A 100 ft yacht of 10 EZ Ups long.
How many EZ Ups is our local supercluster?
I have not calculated the volume of an EZ Up, the pointy top makes it a bit trickier than I'm up for before coffee. And I can only find the diameter (33 megaparsecs) which would be 3.41430562e+23 EZ Ups across.
The other problem is that real estate footage isn't well correlated to the actual number of square feet in the room. The advertised number is anywhere from 20% to 50% higher than the actual depending on the location and realtor.
There was a couple of years ago a real estate agency in Paris that would advertise a minuscule 1 bedroom apartment, wrote it has 24m² floor surface, in the description said it "feels like" 16m² (it was legally 12m² with a ladder to an attic where you cannot stand upright).
how Is that legal?
It isn't technically, but very few people get prosecuted for it, so they do it anyway.
That was actually one of the fraud charges brought against trump in the NY lawsuit.
Relying on objectively false numbers to calculate property values. For example, Mr. Trump’s own triplex apartment in Trump Tower was valued as being 30,000 square feet when it was 10,996 square feet. As a result, in 2015 the apartment was valued at $327 million in total, or $29,738 per square foot. That price was absurd given the fact that at that point only one apartment in New York City had ever sold for even $100 million, at a price per square foot of less than $10,000. And that sale was in a newly built, ultra-tall tower. In 30 year-old Trump Tower, the record sale as of 2015 was a mere $16.5 million at a price of less than $4,500 per square foot.
I.15.a of this document
It isn't
When I was a kid reading detective stories and the like, I was always baffled by how witnesses interviewed by the police could describe the suspect as e. g. around 6' 5" - until I realized people use their own height as reference and it's much easier to judge the smaller, relative difference.
I guess that works for apartment sizes / area as well.
Also, people just guess and are wrong most of the time.
Best way I know of is to learn what square footage a couple houses/buildings you spend time in are, and then compare to that. "OH okay so this is like 300 sq ft bigger than my place" or whatever.
I'm having to estimate jobs based on square footage (electrician) so that's how I've been getting a handle on it anyway.
So is this harder to do in feet? I feel like I have a good grasp of m2. I mean, 1m2 is pretty much the space you take up standing up, and you see small numbers (60-200m2) any time you're apartment hunting, and it gets pretty intuitive pretty fast. Bigger spaces get harder, but there are other units for those.
It's 0.02 sq Fathoms 👍
When duct cleaning people service solicitors ask me how large my home is in square feet, I act all confused like "uhhhh 10 000? Idk, let me start counting, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 feet this way, then 1, 2, 3,..." and waste their time.
huh... there written record of that somewhere you could just look up you know
Sure, but do I want to do that while on the line with someone cold calling to try to sell me stuff I don't need?
It's just a skill. You do need some visualization ability, but pick a mental yardstick. I used a 6ft tall person. Then just picture them laid end to end to ballpark a certain dimension.
The rest is just some quick arithmetic. Then as you end up practicing it over time, it becomes easier until you're just like "yeah, that's like 100' or something".
The place you live in makes an easy yardstick.
a hundred what?
' is a shorthand for feet in freedom-units notation. " is inches.
thanks
Should say “acre” or “horsepower”