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  2. Yard - Wikipedia

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    The quarter of a yard (9 inches) was known as the "quarter" without further qualification, while the sixteenth of a yard (2.25 inches) was called a nail. [62] The eighth of a yard (4.5 inches) was sometimes called a finger, [63] but was more commonly referred to simply as an eighth of a yard, while the half-yard (18 inches) was called "half a ...

  3. English units - Wikipedia

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    The Compositio redefined the yard, foot, inch, and barleycorn to 10 ⁄ 11 of their previous value. [dubious – discuss] However, it retained the Anglo-Saxon rod of 15 x 11 ⁄ 10 feet (5.03 metres) and the acre of 4 × 40 square rods. Thus, the rod went from 5 old yards to 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 new yards, or 15 old feet to 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 new feet. The ...

  4. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    At the time, Smoot was 5 feet, 7 inches, or 170 cm, tall. [18] Google Earth and Google Calculator include the smoot as a unit of measurement. The Cambridge (Massachusetts) police department adopted the convention of using Smoots to measure the locations of accidents and incidents on the bridge.

  5. Inch per second - Wikipedia

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    The inch per second is a unit of speed or velocity. It expresses the distance in inches (in) traveled or displaced, divided by time in seconds (s, or sec). The equivalent SI unit is the metre per second. [1] Abbreviations include in/s, [1] in/sec, ips, [1] and less frequently in s −1.

  6. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    In Quebec, the surveys in French units were converted using the relationship 1 pied (of the French variety; the same word is used for English feet as well) = 12.789 inches (of English origin). Thus a square arpent was 5299296.0804 in 2 or about 36,801 ft 2 or 0.8448 acre.

  7. Metrication in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia uses metric paper sizes for office use and home printing (most commonly A4 size, being 210 × 297 mm) [49] However, the term dots per inch (dpi) is still used when referring to printing resolution. [50] The photo printing industry uses both imperial and metric sizes for photograph dimensions (e.g. 4 × 6 inches as well as 10 × 15 cm).

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  9. Katha (unit) - Wikipedia

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    One Katha is equal to 1,361.25 ft 2 or 151.25 square yard or 126.46 square metre. One Bigha in UP can range from 5 to 20 Katha. In Western UP, 1 Bigha can be 5.0 Katha (756.25 square yard) or 6.6667 Katha (1,008.33 square yard). In Eastern UP, 1 Bigha is 20 Katha (3,025 square yard). 1 Katha or 1 Biswa = 20 Dhur or 20 Biswansi; 1 Dhur = 1 Biswansi