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Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. ... 172.2 cm (5 ft 8 in) 178.8 cm (5 ft 10 + 1 ...
All other railways use 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in) (broad gauge); some use 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge; Decauville uses 500 mm (19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) gauge. Planned and under construction high-speed railways to use 1,668 mm ( 5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in ) to maintain interoperability with the rest of the network.
Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...
[25] [26] The standard FIFA football pitch for international matches is 105 m (344 ft) long by 68 m (223 ft) wide (7,140 m 2 or 0.714 ha or 1.76 acres); FIFA allows for a variance of up to 5 m (16.4 ft) in length in either direction and 7 m (23.0 ft) more or 4 m (13.1 ft) less in width (and larger departures if the pitch is not used for ...
Not shown is the rare, but also possible combination of a 30-foot container coupled to a 10-foot box, in a 40(+) foot long stack. The ISO 668 standard firstly classifies containers by their length in whole feet for their 'common names', despite all measurement units used being either metric (SI) or officially based on the metric system .
The first group of metric units are those that are at present defined as units within the International System of Units (SI). In its most restrictive interpretation, this is what may be meant when the term metric unit is used. The unit one (1) is the unit of a quantity of dimension one. It is the neutral element of any system of units. [2]
4.864 m (15 ft 11.5 in) Bern, Canton of Ruthe 10 Fuss 2.932 m (9 ft 7.4 in) Braunschweig (Brunswick) Ruthe 16 Fuß 4.565 m (14 ft 11.7 in) Bremen Ruthe 8 Ellen or 16 Fuß 4.626 m (15 ft 2.1 in) Calenberg Ruthe 16 Fuß 4.677 m (15 ft 4.1 in) Cassel, Hessen Ruthe 14 Fuß 4.026 m (13 ft 2.5 in) Hamburg Geestruthe 16 Fuß
Area floored with 8 tatami mats (4 tsubo, or 8 jō) The base unit of Japanese area is the tsubo, equivalent to a square ken or 36 square shaku. It is twice the size of the jō, the area of the Nagoya tatami mat. Both units are used informally in discussing real estate floorspace. [20]