On Mon, 31 May 2004 15:29:51 GMT, G.R. Patterson III wrote:

3291 miles square would cover approximately all of the US and Canada.
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The US is 3.2 MILLION square miles.

and 3,291 x 3,291 (3,291 miles square) equals 10,830,681
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No, that would be miles *squared*, not miles square.

I only inserted the original reference ...

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