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8.76 m 2 94.3 sq ft duo scrupula 200 1 ⁄ 144: 17.5 m 2 188 sq ft sextula 400 1 ⁄ 72: 35.0 m 2 377 sq ft sicilicus 600 1 ⁄ 48: 52.6 m 2 566 sq ft semiuncia 1,200 1 ⁄ 24: 105 m 2 1,130 sq ft uncia 2,400 1 ⁄ 12: 210 m 2 2,260 sq ft sextans 4,800 1 ⁄ 6: 421 m 2 4,530 sq ft quadrans 7,200 1 ⁄ 4: 631 m 2 6,790 sq ft
Very differing definitions, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18 or 20 feet, varied between approx. 3 and 5 m. Wegstunde – 'Way's hour', one hours travel (by foot), used up to the 18th century. In Germany 1 ⁄ 2 Meile or 3.71 km, in Switzerland 16000 feet or 4.8 km
The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [10] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [11] thou or mil (1 ⁄ 1000 of an inch) inch (25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
A league is a unit of length.It was common in Europe and Latin America, but is no longer an official unit in any nation.Derived from an ancient Celtic unit and adopted by the Romans as the leuga, the league became a common unit of measurement throughout western Europe.
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Metric prefixes; Text Symbol Factor or; yotta Y 10 24: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: zetta Z 10 21: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000: exa E 10 18: 1 000 000 000 000 000 000: peta P 10 15: 1 000 000 000 000 000: tera T
12 meters – height of a saguaro cactus; 12 meters – length of a whale shark, largest living fish; 12 meters – wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur; 12.8 meters – length of a Titanoboa, the largest snake to have ever lived; 13 meters – length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates
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