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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke").

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec; 3.4 cm – length of a quail egg [112] 3.5 cm – width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball [114] 5 cm – usual diameter of a chicken egg

  4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. FFF system - Wikipedia

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    One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 seconds. [2] This has become a joke in computer science because in the VMS operating system, the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable, which holds the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is invalid, is set in microfortnights.

  6. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    The Jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one femtometre (about the diameter of a nucleon). The Planck time is the time that light takes to travel one Planck length. The TU (for time unit) is a unit of time defined as 1024 μs for use in engineering. The svedberg is a time unit used for sedimentation rates (usually

  7. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Because of the identity property of multiplication, multiplying any quantity (physical or not) by the dimensionless 1 does not change that quantity. [5] Once this and the conversion factor for seconds per hour have been multiplied by the original fraction to cancel out the units mile and hour , 10 miles per hour converts to 4.4704 metres per ...

  8. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The erg (erg) is a unit of energy equal to 1 dyn⋅cm (100 nJ). [3] The poise (P) is a unit of dynamic viscosity equal to 1 Ba⋅s (100 mPa⋅s). [3] The stokes (St) is a unit of kinematic viscosity equal to 1 cm 2 ⋅s −1 (100 mm 2 ⋅s −1). [3] The stilb (sb) is a unit of luminance equal to 1 cd⋅cm −2 (10 kcd⋅m −2). [4] The phot ...

  9. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    2 Mm 3 means two cubic megametres, or the volume of two cubes of 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m, i.e. 2 × 10 18 m 3, and not 2 000 000 cubic metres (2 × 10 6 m 3). Examples with prefixes and powers