 | A. C. Smeaton - Building - 1867 - 314 pages
...in relation to the measurement of the several kinds of builders' work. MENSURATION OP SUPERFICIES. PROBLEM I. To find the Area of a Square. RULE. Multiply the side by itself, and the product will be the area. Let it be required to find the area of a square, the side of which... | |
 | Frederick Thomas Hodgson - Carpentry - 1883 - 168 pages
...as, -5 = five tenths, -05 = five hundredths, 2-8 = 2 and eight tenths. MENSURATION OF SUPERFICIES. To Find the Area of a Square. Rule.— Multiply the side by itself, or, in other words, the base by the perpendicular. Example. — To find the area of a square whose... | |
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... rods, &c. A square inch means a space an inch long and an inch broad, in which depth or thickness is not considered ; and so of square feet, yards, rods, &c. And the superficial contents, or area of any plain surface, is the number of square inches,... 
