French: 40a 35caEnglish translation: are = 100 m² / centiare = 1 m² 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | a = are / ca = centiare | | English translation: | are = 100 m² / centiare = 1 m² | | Entered by: | Paula McMullan |
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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering | | French term or phrase: 40a 35ca | This is the unit of measurement for a housing development in Guadeloupe. My initial thought was that "a" meant acre, but that doesn't make sense given that Guadeloupe is a DOM and therefore, I imagine, metric.
Even if it is acre, then I cannot find what "ca" means as a subdivision.
Any ideas please?
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| | Clarification request(s) and responsePaula McMullan: 9:25am Feb 13, 2007: Thanks everyone for such a quick response!! I obviously wasn't looking in the right place during my research.
Tony M: 9:39am Feb 13, 2007: These are standard SI units that should be readily available from any normal reference sources, and have cropped up at least once before here on kudoZ
Paula McMullan: 10:55am Feb 13, 2007: I am sure you are right, Tony, but after half an hour of searching, I decided I was probably getting research blind.
Tony M: 11:22am Feb 13, 2007: The following is a rather useful page about units of measurement:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
Paula McMullan: 11:45am Feb 13, 2007: Tony, thank you. We had a server installed recently which happily deleted all my website faves so I'm having to rebuild them.
Tony M: 1:10pm Feb 13, 2007: Bad luck! That is SUCH a pain. :-((
Please, could you edit the gloss entry to make it more logical to anyone stumbling across it cold?
Paula McMullan: 8:03pm Feb 13, 2007: Is this what you mean?
David Goward: 8:14pm Feb 13, 2007: That seems clear enough to me, Paula. Thanks for the compliment by the way ;-)
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| | 4035 m² | Explanation:
40 ares and 35 centiares
= 4035 square metres
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-13 11:39:01 GMT)
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Incidentally, I've just discovered while messing about on http://www.onlineconversion.com, in response to Conor's agreement below, that 4035 sq.m is very, very slightly less than one acre (0.997). If an Imperial equivalent is required, that might be handier than 43432 sq.ft! |
| Selected response from:
David Goward
France
| Note from asker to answererDavid, you're a star. Thanks for your very practical answer.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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5 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 |
| are and centiare
Explanation:
These are parts of a hectare
| Kate Hudson
Netherlands
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 32
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