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Whenever we choose a unit of distance to measure the length of a line segment (as we did in the first chapter), we are also selecting a unit of area, with which we can measure the amount of space enclosed by a region in the plane. For example, if we select the centimeter as the unit of distance, the corresponding unit of area is the square centimeter.
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Lang, S., Murrow, G. (1983). Area and the Pythagoras Theorem. In: Geometry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1797-6_3
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