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  2. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4 rods, each of 16.5 ft or 100 links of 0.66 feet. A link is abbreviated "lk", and links "lks", in old deeds and land surveys done for the government.

  3. Fathom - Wikipedia

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    Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m 2) in the plane of a vein. [2] In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. [2] In Central Europe, the klafter was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the toise in France.

  4. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The location marker posts are installed at 100-meter intervals. [130] The hectometre (SI symbol: hm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 100 meters (10 2 m). To compare different orders of magnitude this section lists lengths between 100 meters and 1,000 meters (1 kilometer).

  5. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light-year, but applicable to extremely short distances such as those in integrated circuits. It is the length an average beard grows in one second. Kemp Bennett Kolb defines the distance as exactly 100 angstroms (10 nanometres), [8] as does Nordling and Österman's Physics Handbook. [9]

  6. List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    1.4 million square feet of programmed space, including 950 residential units, a 308-key hotel, 94,000 square feet of office space and 185,000 square feet of shops and restaurants / Redevelopment of Crossroads of the World. [170] 1233 Grand: 384 (117) 30: TBD: Financial District (1233 S. Grand) Proposed \ residential. [11] 1201 Grand: TBD: 40: TBD

  7. List of tallest buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    A bigger controversy was the rivalry between two New York City skyscrapers built in the Roaring Twenties—the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street. The latter was 927 feet (283 meters) tall, had a shorter pinnacle, and had a much higher top occupied floor (the second category in the 1996 criteria for tallest building). [19]

  8. History of the world's tallest buildings - Wikipedia

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    For instance, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was completed in approximately 280 BC, has been estimated to have been 100 m (330 ft) tall, [1] but its true height is not known. For thousands of years, the Great Pyramid in Egypt was the tallest structure in the world until Lincoln Cathedral of 1311 , but the Great Pyramid is not considered a ...

  9. String girdling Earth - Wikipedia

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    For example, each additional 1000 feet adds 2 × π × 1000 ≈ 6,283 feet (1.0340 nautical miles) around the whole Earth. In other words, each kilometre altitude increases the distance by 15.7 cm, per kilometre travelled. The higher efficiency far exceeds the negligible distance added. [citation needed]