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It is especially popular as a unit of measurement with shooters familiar with the imperial measurement system because 1 MOA subtends a circle with a diameter of 1.047 inches (which is often rounded to just 1 inch) at 100 yards (2.66 cm at 91 m or 2.908 cm at 100 m), a traditional distance on American target ranges.
The measurement of time is unique in SI in that while the second is the base unit, and measurements of time smaller than a second use prefixed units smaller than a second (e.g. microsecond, nanosecond, etc.), measurements larger than a second instead use traditional divisions, including the sexagesimal-based minute and hour as well as the less ...
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.
The international standard symbol for inch is in (see ISO 31-1, Annex A) but traditionally the inch is denoted by a double prime, which is often approximated by a double quote symbol, and the foot by a prime, which is often approximated by an apostrophe. For example; three feet, two inches can be written as 3 ′ 2″.
2.817 940 285 (31) × 10 −15 [18] The Compton wavelength of the electron λ C: 2.426 310 215 (18) × 10 −12 [18] The reduced Compton wavelength of the electron λ C: 3.861 592 6764 (18) × 10 −13 [19] The Compton wavelength (or reduced Compton wavelength) of any fundamental particle λ x: The Bohr radius of the hydrogen atom (Atomic unit ...
2.5 Inches. 2.6 Feet. 3 Loudness. 4 Mass. 5 Time. 6 Volume. 7 Miscellaneous. 8 See also. ... League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition)
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1.75 m – (5 feet 8 inches) – height of average U.S. male human as of 2002 (source: U.S. CDC as per female above) 2.4 m – wingspan of a mute swan; 2.5 m – height of a sunflower; 2.7 m – length of a leatherback sea turtle, the largest living turtle; 2.72 m – (8 feet 11 inches) – tallest-known human (Robert Wadlow) [31]