@ddrake @WarnerCrocker

Just a few moments I was thinking about the whole number factorization of an acre, if you need reminding of how big an acre is, can be, it’s 55 x 88 yards. Which is the appropriate number of divisors 11, 5, 3, and 2 in feet (8 is 2x2x2x2) . You can make an acre less square than 5x8, but many of those shapes will happen to divide evenly and neatly into a square mile, based on another seemingly arbitrary distance of 5,280 feet.