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the quiet math that turns a flat shape into a number you can argue about
means the amount of flat space a surface or region covers, or simply a particular place or zone.
from From Latin 'area,' meaning a level open space, a vacant piece of ground, or a threshing-floor where grain was beaten out under the sun. The word arrived in English in the 1500s, first for an open patch of ground, later stretching to mean both a measured surface and any defined region. Its deeper root is uncertain, though some link it to Latin 'arere,' to be dry — fittingly, a threshing-floor was a flat, dry, sun-baked space.
- oldest trick
- Egyptians measured land to redraw flood-erased farms
- infinite edge
- coastlines can have endless perimeter, finite area
- named unit
- the are equals 100 square meters
- calculus core
- integration is just adding infinite tiny areas
amazon rainforest — 5.5 million square kilometers spanning 9 countries in south america
sahara desert — 9 million square kilometers across north africa
pacific ocean — 165 million square kilometers, largest ocean on earth