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Originally Posted by jimhelm
i wanna say 60 without doing any math or thinking about it at all.
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Hand back your genius card, sir!
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Originally Posted by glatt
It doesn't say the acres have to be square. So I assumed the fence is a circle, and was going to do the math with Area=pi*r(squared) and circumference=2*pi*r
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The starting phrase "if one mile of fencing encloses 40 acres ... " fairly strongly implies square fields (although not necessarily).
Clear communication is not the strong point of our nut-setter.