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so I was reading the measurements in Ultimate Campaign for the actual city. 1 district is 9 greater blocks. 1 greater block is 4 lesser blocks. Each lesser block is 750ft long, making the district 1 square mile. Now my math is garbage, so please tell me if I'm doing this wrong.
Lesser block is 750. Greater block then is 1500ft. 1 side of district is 4500ft. Multiply 4500 with 4500 to equal... 20,250,000ft. Pretty sure that's a bit bigger than a square mile (5280)
Been looking for errata or something, cause now my head is hurting.
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One square mile is approximately 28 million square feet, so while that's not exactly on target, it is well within one order of magnitude.
If you square root the exact amount of square feet that a square mile is (27 878 400) you get 5280 feet per side. If you divide that by 3 by 2 (by 6) you'd get that the lesser block would have to be 880 feet. Off, but close enough for literally government work.
You're comparing a linear number (the length of a mile) with a square (the length of a side multiplied by itself.) A square mile is 5280 feet on a side.
5280 x 5280 = 27,878,400.
It's best not to look too closely at the numbers, anyway (you can fit an awful lot of stuff into a square mile); just assume that the size of a city is Genericly Vague and leave it at that.
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so I was reading the measurements in Ultimate Campaign for the actual city. 1 district is 9 greater blocks. 1 greater block is 4 lesser blocks. Each lesser block is 750ft long, making the district 1 square mile. Now my math is garbage, so please tell me if I'm doing this wrong.
Lesser block is 750. Greater block then is 1500ft. 1 side of district is 4500ft. Multiply 4500 with 4500 to equal... 20,250,000ft. Pretty sure that's a bit bigger than a square mile (5280)
Been looking for errata or something, cause now my head is hurting.
A mile is 5280 feet long. A square mile would be 5280 x 5280, or 27878400 square feet.
Edit: Ninja'd :-)