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The joint European standard for size labelling of clothes, formally known as the EN 13402 Size designation of clothes, is a European standard for labelling clothes sizes. The standard is based on body dimensions measured in centimetres , and as such, and its aim is to make it easier for people to find clothes in sizes that fit them.
Italian (IT), French (FR) and German (DE) standard dress sizes, s, are calculated by bust circumference, b, and body height, h, both measured in centimetres, as follows: IT: s = b / 2 FR: s = b / 2 − 4 = b − 8 / 2
The French scale measures the outer diameter of the catheter, not the size of the internal drainage channel (inner diameter). For instance, a two-way catheter of 20 Fr and a three-way catheter of 20 Fr have the same outer diameter, but the three-way catheter has an additional channel for irrigation, reducing the size of its drainage channel.
A child's size zero is equivalent to 4 inches (a hand = 12 barleycorns = 10.16 cm), and the sizes go up to size 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 (measuring 25 + 1 ⁄ 2 barleycorns, or 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (21.59 cm)). Thus, the calculation for a children's shoe size in the UK is: child shoe size (barleycorns) = 3 × last length (in) − 12. equivalent to:
The value of the United Kingdom primary standard of the yard was determined in terms of the meter by the National Physical Laboratory in 1964 to be 0.914 3969 m, [27] implying a pre-1959 UK foot of 0.304 7990 m. The UK adopted the international yard for all purposes through the Weights and Measures Act 1963, effective January 1, 1964. [28]
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Although etymologically related to the English unit bushel, the French bushel is about one third the size. A boisseau was defined as 10 ⁄ 27 of a cubic pied du roi. minot: 3 38.09 dm 3: 8.38 imp gal 8.65 U.S. dry gal mine: 6 76.17 dm 3: 16.76 imp gal 17.29 U.S. dry gal setier: 12 152.3 dm 3: 33.5 imp gal 34.6 U.S. dry gal muid: 144 1.828 m 3
When James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne in 1603, England and Scotland had different systems of measure. Superficially the English and the Scots units of measure were similar – many had the same names – but there were differences in their sizes: in particular the Scots pint and gallon were more than twice the size of their English counterparts. [3]