how many feet in a vera
Before electronic calculators, converting square varas (at 1 vara = 32.8748 inches) to acres was a tedious job. But if 1 vara = 33 1/3 inches, 3 varas are exactly 100 inches, 36 varas are exactly 100 feet, and 108 varas are exactly 100 yards. An easy division and some shuffling of the decimal point do the job.