A foot is approx. 1/3 of a meter. Why isn’t a sq ft 1/3rd of a sq meter?

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A foot is 0,30m and a sq ft is 0,09m. I know some will say because 0,3 times 0,3 is 0,09 but that wouldn’t explain the break of logic as I perceive it.

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You have a square meter. You divide it into thirds, with each third approximately 1 foot long. Those thirds aren’t squares — they’re still a meter wide.

To make them squares, you divide them into thirds in the other direction. Now you have squares. But there’s nine of them.

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