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  2. Degree (angle) - Wikipedia

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    With the invention of the metric system, based on powers of ten, there was an attempt to replace degrees by decimal "degrees" in France and nearby countries, [note 3] where the number in a right angle is equal to 100 gon with 400 gon in a full circle (1° = 10 ⁄ 9 gon). This was called grade (nouveau) or grad.

  3. Degree of curvature - Wikipedia

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    The 100 feet (30.48 m) is called a station, used to define length along a road or other alignment, annotated as stations plus feet 1+00, 2+00, etc. Metric work may use similar notation, such as kilometers plus meters 1+000.

  4. Azimuth - Wikipedia

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    The first known record in any Western language is in Spanish in the 1270s in ... less than 0.03 arc second for distances less than 100 ... There is a wide variety ...

  5. Minute and second of arc - Wikipedia

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    circle is 10 cm wide on a computer display, viewing it from 10.3 m (11.3 yards) away will show true representation of the sizes. Since antiquity, the arcminute and arcsecond have been used in astronomy : in the ecliptic coordinate system as latitude (β) and longitude (λ); in the horizon system as altitude (Alt) and azimuth (Az); and in the ...

  6. Geographic coordinate conversion - Wikipedia

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    degrees and decimal minutes: 40° 26.767′ N 79° 58.933′ W; decimal degrees: +40.446 -79.982; There are 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute. Therefore, to convert from a degrees minutes seconds format to a decimal degrees format, one may use the formula

  7. Angular diameter - Wikipedia

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    5°20 ′ by 3°5 ′ Andromeda Galaxy: 3°10 ′ by 1° About six times the size of the Sun or the Moon. Only the much smaller core is visible without long-exposure photography. Charon (from the surface of Pluto) 3°9’ Veil Nebula: 3° Heart Nebula: 2.5° by 2.5° Westerhout 5: 2.3° by 1.25° Sh2-54: 2.3° Carina Nebula: 2° by 2°

  8. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...

  9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    100 meters – the distance a very fast human can run in about 10 seconds; 100.584 meters – length of a Canadian football field between the goal lines (110 yards) 91.5 meters – 137 meters – length of a soccer field [119] 105 meters – length of football pitch (UEFA stadium categories 3 and 4) 105 meters – length of a typical football field