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  2. Builder's Old Measurement - Wikipedia

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    Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship. It is a volumetric measurement of cubic capacity. It estimated the tonnage of a ship based on length and maximum beam.

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Decimal Time clock reading 2.50 DT equivalent to 6 AM standard time. The measurement of time is unique in SI in that while the second is the base unit, and measurements of time smaller than a second use prefixed units smaller than a second (e.g. microsecond, nanosecond, etc.), measurements larger than a second instead use traditional divisions ...

  4. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.).

  5. List of file signatures - Wikipedia

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    ␀␁␀␀Standard Jet DB: 0 mdb Microsoft Access Database 01 FF 02 04 03 02 ␁ÿ␂␄␃␂ 0 drw Micrografx vector graphic file 02 64 73 73 ␂dss: 0 dss Digital Speech Standard (Olympus, Grundig, & Phillips) v2 03 64 73 73 ␃dss: 0 dss Digital Speech Standard (Olympus, Grundig, & Phillips) v3 03 00 00 00 41 50 50 52 ␃␀␀␀APPR: 0 adx

  6. Thames Measurement - Wikipedia

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    Thames Measurement, also known as Thames Tonnage, is a system for measuring ships and boats. It was created in 1855 as a variation of Builder's Old Measurement by the Royal Thames Yacht Club , and was designed for small vessels, such as yachts .

  7. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    The general standard for liquids is 31.5 gal or half a hogshead. The common 55-gallon size of drum for storing and transporting various products and wastes is sometimes confused with a barrel, though it is not a standard measure. In the U.S., single servings of beverages are usually measured in fluid ounces.

  8. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    At the close of the 19th century three different systems of units of measure existed for electrical measurements: a CGS-based system for electrostatic units, also known as the Gaussian or ESU system, a CGS-based system for electromechanical units (EMU), and an International system based on units defined by the Metre Convention [33] for ...

  9. Windows Calculator - Wikipedia

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    A simple arithmetic calculator was first included with Windows 1.0. [5]In Windows 3.0, a scientific mode was added, which included exponents and roots, logarithms, factorial-based functions, trigonometry (supports radian, degree and gradians angles), base conversions (2, 8, 10, 16), logic operations, statistical functions such as single variable statistics and linear regression.