I remember Bob Pease's comment about how they documented emitter area:
Maybe I should explain about the "ranchette.” The "ranchette" is a unit of area defined as 1/2 pico-acre. The ranchette is exactly the size of a round emitter 1 milli-inches in radius (well, 0.9983 milli-inch), so it really is handy when dealing with large matched pairs of transistors.