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  2. Furlong - Wikipedia

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    The rod was defined as 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards or 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, and the mile was eight furlongs, so the definition of the furlong became 40 rods and that of the mile became 5,280 feet (eight furlongs/mile times 40 rods/furlong times 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet/rod).

  3. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...

  4. FFF system - Wikipedia

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    The speed of light is 1.8026 × 10 12 furlongs per fortnight (1.8026 terafurlongs per fortnight). By mass–energy equivalence , 1 firkin is equal to 3.249 366 76 × 10 24 firkin· ⁠ furlong 2 / fortnight 2 ⁠ (≈ 3.478 × 10 15 BTU , or 3.669 × 10 18 joules ).

  5. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Two cordless telephones 3 VTech cordless landline phones A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same ...

  7. Chute (racecourse) - Wikipedia

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    Hollywood's chute formerly allowed one mile (1,600 m) races, but when its finish line was moved forward in the late 1980s one mile (1,600 m) races could no longer be accommodated, and 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs (1,500 m) became the longest distance that could be run out of its chute (an unintended consequence of this was that by the mid-2000s 7 + 1 ...

  8. Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile - Wikipedia

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    The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is a 1-mile (1.6 km) Weight for Age stakes race for thoroughbred racehorses three years old and up. As its name implies, it is part of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the de facto year-end championship for North American thoroughbred racing, and is run on a dirt course (either natural dirt or a synthetic surface such as Polytrack).

  9. List of British flat horse races - Wikipedia

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    The Derby's exact distance is 1 mile 4 furlongs and 6 yards, but it is called a 1 mile 4 furlong race. The races in bold are run on an all-weather surface. Races are run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket unless 'Newmarket (July)' is written, in which the July Course is used.

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