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Canada uses the inch-based paper standard e.g. the US Letter (8.5 inches × 11 inches), rather than the metric-based A4 paper size (210 mm × 297 mm) used throughout most of the world. The government, however, uses a combination of ISO paper sizes, and CAN 2-9.60M "Paper Sizes for Correspondence" specifies P1 through P6 paper sizes, which are ...
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.
12.789 inches: ≈ 32.48 cm arpent, as a measure of length: 180 feet (French measure) ≈ 58.47 m arpent, as a measure of area: 32 400 square feet (French measure) ≈ 3,418.89 m 2: perch, as a measure of length: 18 feet (French measure) ≈ 5.85 m perch, as a measure of area: 324 square feet (French measure) ≈ 34.19 m 2
I'm English and we learnt the metric system in school; centimetres and metres. It was oddd learnig feet and inches after moving to the U.S. And like Canada it seems, we brits measure height in feet and inches and often use 'miles' too. prince 07:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC) That makes no sense whatsoever!
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Currently, it has over 400 locations throughout Canada and the United States. [1] It is a franchise company, and experienced system-wide sales of nearly $ 3 billion in 2007. [ 1 ] First Choice Haircutters is a subsidiary of Regis Corporation, the largest hair salon chain in the world which also owns other concepts such as Supercuts , Vidal ...
AG Care (AG Hair LTD) is a Canadian beauty company based in British Columbia, Canada. [1] [2] [3] It is the largest independent manufacturer of professional hair-care products in Canada. [2] AG Care formulates and manufactures professional hair care products that are vegan, cruelty-free and made without drying sulfates, gluten, DEA, parabens ...
The English "hair's breadth" [6] has a direct analogue in the formal Burmese system of Long Measure. A "tshan khyee", the smallest unit in the system, is literally a "hair's breadth". 10 "tshan khyee" form a "hnan" (a Sesamum seed), 60 (6 hnan) form a mooyau (a species of grain), and 240 (4 mooyau) form an "atheet" (literally, a "finger's ...