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  2. Cuerda - Wikipedia

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    The precise conversion is 1 cuerda = 3,930.395625 m 2. [2] The term "Spanish acre" instead has been used sometimes by mainlanders. [1] A cuerda and an acre have often been treated as equal because they are nearly the same size. According to Carlos Menocal Villagran, [3] in Guatemala, the term cuerda refers to a unit of area and can have various ...

  3. Metrication in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Among the Guatemalan units of measurement some are based on old Spanish units; they include the vara and cuadra linear measurements; the vara cuadrada, the manzana and the cuerda units of area; and the libra, arroba, quintal and garrafón units of weight and volume.

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.

  5. Unit of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London Units of measurement, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua. A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. [1]

  6. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    Executive Order 12770, signed by President George H. W. Bush on July 25, 1991, citing the Metric Conversion Act, directed departments and agencies within the executive branch of the United States Government to "take all appropriate measures within their authority" to use the metric system "as the preferred system of weights and measures for ...

  7. DeWine proposes higher taxes on gambling, cigarettes, marijuana

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    (The Center Square) – To pay for a new child tax credit and jails, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to raise taxes for gamblers, smokers and recreational marijuana users. DeWine proposed a $1,000 ...

  8. Units of measurement in transportation - Wikipedia

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    kilogram-kilometre (kg⋅km), moving 1 kg of cargo a distance of 1 km;; tonne-kilometre or kilometre-tonne (t⋅km or km⋅t, also tkm or kmt), the transportation of one tonne over one kilometre; 1 tkm = 1,000 kgkm.

  9. Rihanna Is the People’s Pop Star - AOL

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    Robyn Rihanna Fenty released her first single, “Pon de Replay,” in 2005 when she was 17. In a golden year for pop, one dominated by the likes of Mariah, Missy Elliott, and Destiny’s Child ...