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  2. Sri Lankan units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    He describes the Parah as a measure 16.7 inches wide and 5.6 inches deep. [ 9 ] Montgomery, writing in 1835, described the interior measurement of a Parrah as a perfect cube of 11.571 inches, and the seer as a cylinder of depth 4.35 inches and diameter 4.35 inches.

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    ≡ (G ℏ ⁄ c 5) 1 ⁄ 2: ≈ 5.391 16 × 10 −44 s [26] second (SI base unit) s ≡ Time of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom at 0 K [8] (but other seconds are sometimes used in astronomy).

  4. Span (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek texts show that the span was used as a fixed measure in ancient Greece since at least archaic period.The word spithame (Greek: "σπιθαμή"), "span", [4] is attested in the work of Herodotus [5] in the 5th century BC; however, the span was used in Greece long before that, since the word trispithamos (Greek: "τρισπίθαμος"), "three spans long", [6] occurs as early as ...

  5. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke").

  6. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1 cm – 0.39 inches; 1 cm – edge of a square of area 1 cm 2; 1 cm – edge of a cube of volume 1 mL; 1 cm – length of a coffee bean; 1 cm – approximate width of average fingernail; 1.2 cm – length of a bee; 1.2 cm – diameter of a die; 1.5 cm – length of a very large mosquito; 1.6 cm – length of a Jaragua Sphaero, a very small reptile

  7. Inch - Wikipedia

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    The United States retained the ⁠ 1 / 39.37 ⁠-metre definition for surveying, producing a 2 millionth part difference between standard and US survey inches. [47] This is approximately ⁠ 1 / 8 ⁠ inch per mile; 12.7 kilometres is exactly 500,000 standard inches and exactly 499,999 survey inches.

  8. Why Anthony Mackie's role as Captain America is stirring ...

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    Anthony Mackie taking on the role of Captain America, a fictional comic book character initially portrayed as a white man with blond hair and blue eyes, isn’t groundbreaking to comic books fans.

  9. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    It was 1 ⁄ 6 of a ligne or 1 ⁄ 864 of the smaller French foot. ligne: 1 ⁄ 144: 2.256 mm 88.81 thou 1 ⁄ 12 of a pouce. This corresponds to the line, a traditional English unit. pouce: 1 ⁄ 12: 27.07 mm 1.066 in 1 ⁄ 12 of a pied du roi. This corresponds to the inch, a traditional English unit. pied du roi: 1 32.48 cm 1.066 ft