Mesorat%20hashas for Bava Batra 53:4
מכדי כמה מרובע יותר על העיגול רביע פשו להו ז' מאה ושתין ותמניא אכתי פש ליה פלגא דאמתא היינו דלא דק ולחומרא לא דק
But the space allowed [by the Mishnah] is still half a cubit more [in length]?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The area of the circle allowed by the Mishnah for each tree is 833 1/3 cubits. The square in which this is inscribed would (according to the reckoning of the Talmud) have an area of 1111 1/9 cubits. The side of such a square would he 33.3 cubits. Hence the radius of the area from which the tree sucks would be practically 16 2/3 cubits. (Rabbenu Tam proposed to read here 'two-thirds' instead of 'one-half'.) ');"><sup>4</sup></span>
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