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2. Foot (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Under the Harappan linear measures, Indus cities during the Bronze Age used a foot of 13.2 inches (335 mm) and a cubit of 20.8 inches (528 mm). [11] 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).

3. Feodor Machnow - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Photographic evidence suggest that he was not any taller than 7 feet 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (240.0 cm). This exaggeration may have been because he wore a huge Cossack fur hat, and tall boots which added a foot to his height. [1] Although, if this was accurate, he would have been taller than Robert Wadlow, now cited as the world's tallest ...

4. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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   Zoll – Inch, usually 1 ⁄ 12 foot, but also 1 ⁄ 10. Fuss – Foot, varied between 23.51 cm in Wesel and 40.83 cm in Trier. Rheinfuss – Rhine foot, used in the North, 31.387 cm; Elle – Ell / cubit, distance between elbow and finger tip. In the North, often 2 feet, In Prussia 17 ⁄ 8 feet, in the South variable, often 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet.

5. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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   Brannock Device [1] Brannock Device at shoe museum in Zlín, Czechia. The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size.

6. Ruler - Wikipedia

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   A variety of rulers A carpenter's rule Retractable flexible rule or tape measure A closeup of a steel ruler A ruler in combination with a letter scale. A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. [1]

7. Hatch mark - Wikipedia

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   Unit and value marks — as on a ruler or number line; Congruence notation in geometry — as on a geometric figure; Graphed points — as on a graph; Hatch marks are frequently used as an abbreviation of some common units of measurement. In regard to distance, a single hatch mark indicates feet, and two hatch marks indicate inches.

8. Hash mark (sports) - Wikipedia

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   The hashmarks in that indoor 1932 playoff game were originally 30 feet (9.1 m) from the sideline, and that width was adopted by the NFL for the 1933 season. It was increased to 45 feet (14 m) from the sideline (70 ft [21 m] apart) in 1935 , 60 feet (18 m) from the sideline (40 ft [12 m] apart) in 1945 , and to the current 70 feet 9 inches (21. ...

9. Shaku (unit) - Wikipedia

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   Another shaku variant was used for measuring cloth, which measured 125 ⁄ 330 meters (37.9 centimeters or 14.9 inches), and was known as the "whale shaku " (鯨尺, kujirajaku), as baleen (whale whiskers) were used as cloth rulers. To distinguish the two variants of shaku, the general unit was known as the "metal shaku " (金尺/曲尺 ...