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Perch (square perch, square rod, pole, lug) - traditional land area
Perch is a historical Imperial/US customary unit of area equal to one square rod. Used in older cadastral records and property descriptions alongside roods and acres.
- Symbol: none standardized (written as “perch”, “sq perch”, or “square rod”)
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 perch = 1 square rod = (16.5 ft)² = 272.25 ft² = (5.0292 m)² = 25.29285264 m²
- Other relations: 40 perches = 1 rood; 160 perches = 1 acre; 16 perches = 1 square chai
- Typical examples: plot descriptions such as “2 roods 13 perches”; 19th-century deeds and survey plans
Square decimeter (dm²) - small metric area
Square decimeter is a metric unit of area equal to the area of a square with sides of 1 decimeter (0.1 meter). Used for small surface areas in product labeling, tiling, and heat-flux specifications.
- Symbol: dm²
- System: SI derived unit
- Exact relations: 1 dm² = (0.1 m)² = 0.01 m² = 100 cm² = 10,000 mm²
- Imperial/US equivalents: 1 dm² ≈ 0.107639 ft² ≈ 0.011959 yd² ≈ 15.5000 in²
- Typical examples: a 10 cm × 10 cm tile = 1 dm²; packaging surface area; heat flux quoted in W/dm²