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  2. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A U.K. deal equaled 7 ft × 6 ft × 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in, while a U.S. deal equaled 12 ft × 11 in × 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in. [7] Demiard – an old French unit of volume . When France metricated , it survived in Louisiana and Quebec .

  3. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    One barn is equal to 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2. The name derives from the folk expressions "As big as a barn," and "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn", used by particle accelerator physicists to refer to the probability of achieving a collision between particles. For nuclear purposes, 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2 is actually rather large. [25]

  4. Scale (ratio) - Wikipedia

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    [1] In such cases the scale is dimensionless and exact throughout the model or drawing. The scale can be expressed in four ways: in words (a lexical scale), as a ratio, as a fraction and as a graphical (bar) scale. Thus on an architect's drawing one might read 'one centimeter to one meter', 1:100, 1/100, or ⁠ 1 / 100 ⁠. A bar scale would ...

  5. Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword ...

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    Add this term to the list of sports things I've learned from crossword puzzles. Perhaps more importantly for us today, SCRAMBLE YARDS makes a great title and revealer, with the word SCRAMBLE ...

  6. NYT's The Mini crossword answers for October 25 - AOL

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    Answers to each clue for the Oct. 25, 2023 edition of NYT's The Mini crossword puzzle.

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    1 (10 0) 1 meter 1 m (exactly) Since 2019, defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. 2.72 m Height of Robert Wadlow, tallest-known human. [31] 8.38 m Length of a London bus (AEC Routemaster) 10 1

  8. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. 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. The exact ...

  9. Game of the Day: Daily Celebrity Crossword - AOL

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    The 100-year-old crossword puzzle just got an update! Daily Celebrity Crossword is the first and only daily crossword puzzle that features the latest in pop culture and entertainment.