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2. Measuring rod - Wikipedia

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   Excavations at Lothal dating to 2400 BCE have yielded one such ruler calibrated to about 1 ⁄ 16 inch (1.6 mm) [3] Ian Whitelaw (2007) holds that 'The Mohenjo-Daro ruler is divided into units corresponding to 1.32 inches (34 mm) and these are marked out in decimal subdivisions with remarkable accuracy—to within 0.005 inches (0.13 mm).

3. Sewing gauge - Wikipedia

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   A 6" long sewing gauge with a plastic slider. A sewing gauge is a ruler, typically 6 inches long, used for measuring short spaces.It is typically a metal scale, marked in both inches and centimeters with a sliding pointer, similar in use to a caliper.

4. Ruler - Wikipedia

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   A variety of rulers A carpenter's rule Retractable flexible rule or tape measure A closeup of a steel ruler A ruler in combination with a letter scale. A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge or metre/meter stick, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. [1]

5. List of largest empires - Wikipedia

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   Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [ 8 ]

6. Graduation (scale) - Wikipedia

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   A ruler with two linear scales: the metric and imperial.It includes shorter minor graduations and longer major graduations. A graduation is a marking used to indicate points on a visual scale, which can be present on a container, a measuring device, or the axes of a line plot, usually one of many along a line or curve, each in the form of short line segments perpendicular to the line or curve.

7. Genaille–Lucas rulers - Wikipedia

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   Genaille–Lucas rulers (also known as Genaille's rods) are an arithmetic tool invented by Henri Genaille, a French railway engineer, in 1891. The device is a variant of Napier's bones . By representing the carry graphically, the user can read off the results of simple multiplication problems directly, with no intermediate mental calculations .