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  2. Spanish units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Estado, a unit of length used for measuring depths (similar to the fathom); 7 pies Pulgada (inch: 24.5 mm) used in Spain. Jeme , measure of length, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger of an extended hand.

  3. List of tallest people - Wikipedia

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    10 ft 4 in Sam McDonald (1762 – 6 May 1802), called "Big Sam", was a Scotsman of unusual height for his day who had a distinguished military career and was a noted "strongman". Most sources state his height as 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m), [209] with a burly build, although one 1822 source claims 10 feet 4 inches (3.15 m). [210] 1762–1802 (40?)

  4. 10-foot user interface - Wikipedia

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    A 10-foot UI is almost always designed to be operated by a simple hand-held remote control. Rather than the mouse or touchscreen which are commonly used with other types of user interfaces, the remote's directional pad is the primary means of navigation. This means that a 10-foot UI needs to arrange items on screen in a way that clearly shows ...

  5. Inch - Wikipedia

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    A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.It is equal to ⁠ 1 / 36 ⁠ yard or ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ of a foot.

  6. Metrication in Guatemala - Wikipedia

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    Among the Guatemalan units of measurement some are based on old Spanish units; they include the vara and cuadra linear measurements; the vara cuadrada, the manzana and the cuerda units of area; and the libra, arroba, quintal and garrafón units of weight and volume.

  7. Cuerda - Wikipedia

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    In Guatemala, a cuerda is a traditional unit of distance, equal to exactly 25 varas [1] or almost 21 meters (nearly 69 feet).. During 19th-century Spain, a cuerda was a unit of length, of nearly 6.889 m (approx. 7.554 yd). [2]

  8. Femtometre - Wikipedia

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    1000000 zeptometres = 1 femtometre = 1 fermi = 0.000001 nanometre = 10 −15 metres. 1 000 000 000 000 femtometres = 1 millimetre. For example, the charge radius of a proton is approximately 0.841 femtometres [3] while the radius of a gold nucleus is approximately 8.45 femtometres. [4] 1 barn = 100 fm 2

  9. Zeng Jinlian - Wikipedia

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    Zeng was born on 26 June 1964 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, to a poor farming family, as the youngest of four children, [a] growing up in Nanzui Town by Muping Lake. Her parents Zeng Xianmao and Yu Xuemei [b] were 163 cm (5 ft 4.2 in) and 156 cm (5 ft 1.4 in) respectively, with all her siblings being in within similar height range, with a brother being measured at 158 cm (5 ft 2 in) at age 18. [1]