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  2. String girdling Earth - Wikipedia

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    The answer is that a cat will easily pass through the gap, the size of which will be ⁠ 1 / 2 π ⁠ metres or about 16 cm (6.3 in). Even more surprising is that the size of the sphere or circle around which the string is spanned is irrelevant, and may be anything from the size of an atom to the Milky Way — the result depends only on the ...

  3. Metre-stick - Wikipedia

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    A metrestick divided into 1,000 mm and labeled with 100 cm. A metre-stick, metrestick (or meter-stick and meterstick as alternative spellings); [1] or yardstick [2] is either a straightedge or foldable ruler used to measure length, and is especially common in the construction industry.

  4. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    ~1277 m 2 ~1527 sq yd A square 5 perches on each side, or one quarter of an acre. acre, or arpent carré: 48 400 ~5107 m 2 ~6108 sq yd, or ~1.262 acres The French acre is a square 10 perches (one arpent) on each side. (Does not exactly correspond to the English acre, which is defined as 43 560 square feet.) North America: perche du roi carrée: 324

  5. Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and ...

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    The values of these units are based on Jefferson's proposal of a foot that was equal in length to one-fifth of a second rod, one fourth of an inch shorter than the foot in use at the time, and approximately equal to 0.298461684 m. [5] For the mass units, the ounce as a base would equal the weight of a cubic inch of pure water at standard ...

  6. List of tallest players in NBA history - Wikipedia

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    Yao, Ralph Sampson and Arvydas Sabonis are the only players 7 feet 3 inches or taller selected to the Hall of Fame. Yasutaka Okayama , a 7-foot-8-inch (2.34 m) Japanese basketball player picked 171st overall in the seventh round of the 1981 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors , is the tallest player to ever be drafted for the NBA. [ 2 ]

  7. Rough (facility) - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, British Gas Corporation made the final decision to convert Rough into a natural gas storage facility. It came into operation in 1985 as the largest gas storage facility built in the UK continental shelf, capable of storing 100 billion cubic feet of gas, nearly double Great Britain's 2021 capacity. [5] [6] [7]

  8. List of states and union territories of India by area - Wikipedia

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    Rank State / Union Territory Area (km 2) Region % total 1 (S1) Rajasthan: 342,239 Western: 10.411 2 (S2) Madhya Pradesh: 308,252 Central: 9.377 [a]3 (S3) Maharashtra

  9. Standard wire gauge - Wikipedia

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    A standard wire gauge. British Standard Wire Gauge (often abbreviated to Standard Wire Gauge or SWG) is a unit for denoting wire size given by BS 3737:1964 (now withdrawn). It is also known as the Imperial Wire Gauge or British Standard Gauge.