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The template is intended for conversion of heights specified in either metres or in feet and inches. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Metres m metre metres meter meters The height in metres. Do not use if feet and inches are specified. Number optional Centimetres cm centimetre centimetres centimeter centimeters The height in centimetres. Do not use if ...
Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
170.7 cm (5 ft 7 in) 1.08: 21 (N= m:74 f:50, SD= m:7.1 cm (2.8 in) f:6.3 cm (2.5 in)) 1.5%: Measured: 2009 [138] New Zealand: 177 cm (5 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 164 cm (5 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.08: 20–49: 56.9%: Measured: 2007 [19] Nicaragua — 153.7 cm (5 ft 1 ⁄ 2 in) — 25–49: 54.1%: Self-reported: 2001 [32] Nicaragua – Managua: 166.8 cm (5 ...
1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]
5 ft 5 in: 180 cm 165 cm: 1 ⁄ 2 in 5 in: 1 cm 13 cm 1920: Warren G. Harding: 6 ft 0 in 183 cm: James M. Cox [62] 5 ft 6 in 168 cm: 6 in 15 cm 1916: Woodrow Wilson: 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: Charles Evans Hughes [59] 5 ft 10 in 178 cm: 1 in 3 cm 1912: Woodrow Wilson: 5 ft 11 in 180 cm: William Howard Taft Theodore Roosevelt: 5 ft 11 1 ⁄ 2 in 5 ft ...
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The millimetre (mm), centimetre (cm) and the kilometre (km), derived from the metre, are also commonly used units. In U.S. customary units, English or imperial system of units, commonly used units of length are the inch (in), the foot (ft), the yard (yd), and the mile (mi). A unit of length used in navigation is the nautical mile (nmi). [7]
The Egyptian equivalent of the foot—a measure of four palms or 16 digits—was known as the djeser and has been reconstructed as about 30 cm (11.8 in). The Greek foot (πούς, pous) had a length of 1 / 600 of a stadion, [12] one stadion being about 181.2 m (594 ft); [13] therefore a foot was, at the time, about 302 mm (11.9 in). Its ...