[drive surgeon]

this is an excellent point,  me not good at maths so i did not realise either!

[Eric Lloyd]

Can I chip in my two penn'orth.
100m2 is 100 square metres. 10m x 10m.
If it was 100m x 100m it would be expressed as :
(100m)2. Not use of brackets to isolate the factor.
100 x 100 is indeed 10,000.

[drive surgeon]

good point.

[Mikescape]

thanks for that eric, I'm not quite as daft as i was begginning to think i was

[Andy Foster]

ou don;t have to take my word for it, this is the explanaition as given by a doctor of mathematics...

"If this is a mile:

     +---+

then this is a "one mile square," a square one mile on each side whose
area is called one square mile:

     +---+
     |     |
     +---+

and this is ten square miles:

     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |     |    |     |     |     |    |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

But "ten miles square" (or "ten miles squared") means we make a square
ten miles on a side:

     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
     |     |     |     |    |     |     |    |     |     |     |
     +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

If you count, or think a bit, you'll see that 10 miles square is
actually 100 square miles, ten times as much as 10 square miles."


It all depends on whether you say miles square(d) or square miles.

[allyoops]

So how much is ten cubic miles
   ;

[Andy Foster]

10 cubic miles is 10 cubic miles.

10 miles cubed (10 x 10 x 10) is 1000 cubic miles

 

[drive surgeon]

what about 100 miles squared?  im getting confused now.

[steve doyle]

what about 100 miles squared?  im getting confused now.

You would probably need to sub it 

[drive surgeon]