Square yard

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The square yard is an Imperial unit/U.S. customary unit (non-SI non-metric) of area, used in most of the English-speaking world. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard (three feet, thirty-six inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

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[edit] Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

  • square yards, square yard, square yds, square yd
  • sq yards, sq yard, sq yds, sq yd
  • yards/-2, yard/-2, yds/-2, yd/-2
  • yards^2, yard^2, yds^2, yd^2
  • yards², yard², yds², yd²

[edit] Conversions

One square yard is equivalent to:

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