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Person behind this account, at this point you're being deliberately dense.

Find something better to do with your time

Those are the exact same thing because they are the exact same thing.

I understand English is difficult to parse, I hope you'll get there some day.

I guess you're the person who this comic is written with thoughts of

Maybe when you're buying real estate or property some day it'll click for you, in the mean time please ask for help before writing units in scientific papers, or interpreting those papers, and definitely don't try to spread the results of those papers to others, lest we end up with world consuming insects.

Did you not notice the unit modifier in the my second phrase???

Let me spell it out for you.

3 (three) ' (feet) ^2 (squared)

You'd have me repeating myself like a monkey, which is, NINE.

3 (three) sq (square) ft (feet) is THREE.

but I suspect you'll disagree at at this point I'll move on, my only sadness is there was a person out there who agreed with your original argument that they were the same.