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Old 07-01-2014, 04:49 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...as a "first-pass" WAG, simply use 0.85 (or 0.84), times width-inches, times height-inches, divided by 144:

ft^2 ≈ 0.85*(H*W)/144
Yeah that was the formula I used so it should be right or at least close to being right.

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