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The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.
A lane meter is defined as a strip of deck one meter long. A lane is conventionally 2 meters wide, so that a lane meter is equivalent to 2 square metres (21.528 sq ft). [1] The rule of thumb is that a car on a car ferry will need 6 lane meters, and a European semitrailer 18 lane meters. [citation needed]
The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first ...
WJKR (103.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Worthington, Ohio, and serving the Columbus metro area.It carries a country radio format known as "Country 103.9". ". Owned by the North American Broadcasting Company, Inc., its studios and offices are on Dublin Road in Co
The new standard was made of Baily's metal No. 4 consisting of 16 parts copper, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 parts tin, and 1 part zinc. It was 38 inches long and 1 inch square. The Weights and Measures Act 1855 granted official recognition to the new standards. Between 1845 and 1855 forty yard standards were constructed, one of which was selected as the new ...
In Chicago, a typical city block is 330 by 660 feet (100 m × 200 m), [2] meaning that 16 east-west blocks or 8 north-south blocks measure one mile, which has been adopted by other US cities. In much of the United States and Canada, the addresses follow a block and lot number system , in which each block of a street is allotted 100 building ...
Comparison of 1 square yard with some Imperial and metric units of area The square yard ( Northern India : gaj , Pakistan : gaz ) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area . It is in widespread use in most of the English -speaking world, particularly the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Pakistan and India.
The fenced front yard of a house in Brewarrina, Australia, with an Australiana painted-tyre-swan lawn ornament.. The history of the Australian front yard is said to have begun with a regulation enacted in New South Wales in 1829 mandating that new houses be built at least 14 ft (4.3 m) from the street to ensure adequate space in front of each house for a garden.