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2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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   Standard metric foot sizes can be converted to the nearest Paris point (2 ⁄ 3 cm) sizes using approximate conversion tables; shoes are marked with both foot length in millimetres, as for pointe ballet shoe sizes, and last length in European Paris point sizes (although such converted Stichmaß sizes may come 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 size smaller than ...

3. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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   A chart of Imperial and United States customary units. The barleycorn is an English unit of length [1] equal to 1 ⁄ 3 of an inch (i.e. about 8.47 mm). It is still used as the basis of shoe sizes in English-speaking countries.

4. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   Brannock Device [1] Brannock Device at shoe museum in Zlín, Czechia. The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size. Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the length, width, and arch length of the human foot.

5. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Metric signs and metric measurements were removed for the 2009 edition and replaced with an appendix of metric conversion tables. This is in marked contrast to the position in the (largely metric) United Kingdom , where metric road signs are prohibited by law (except for those denoting widths and height restrictions, which include both metric ...

6. File:Shoe sizes for adults by foot length (multilingual).svg

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   English: Shoe sizes for adults in Mondopoint, EU, UK and US systems, measured by foot length (multi-lingual) Русский: Размеры обуви для взрослых в системах Мондопойнт, EU, UK, and US, измеренные по длине стопы (несколько языков)

7. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Its exact size varied from city to city and could range between 270 mm (10.6 in) and 350 mm (13.8 in), but lengths used for temple construction appear to have been about 295 mm (11.6 in) to 325 mm (12.8 in); the former was close to the size of the Roman foot.