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  2. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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    In the most familiar acuity test, a Snellen chart is placed at a standard distance: 6 metres. At this distance, the symbols on the line representing "normal" acuity subtend an angle of five minutes of arc, and the thickness of the lines and of the spaces between the lines subtends one minute of arc. This line, designated 6/6 (or 20/20), is the ...

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In dynastic China, the kè was a unit that represented 1 ⁄ 100 of a day (it has since been redefined to 1 ⁄ 96 of a day, or 15 minutes). In France, a decimal time system in place from 1793 to 1805 divided the day into 10 hours, each divided into 100 minutes, in turn each divided into 100 seconds; the French Republican Calendar further ...

  4. LogMAR chart - Wikipedia

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    The chart was designed by Ian Bailey [5] and Jan E. Lovie-Kitchin at the National Vision Research Institute of Australia. [1] [3] They described their motivation for designing the LogMAR chart as follows: "We have designed a series of near vision charts in which the typeface, size progression, size range, number of words per row and spacings were chosen in an endeavour to achieve a ...

  5. Minute and second of arc - Wikipedia

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    The nautical mile (nmi) was originally defined as the arc length of a minute of latitude on a spherical Earth, so the actual Earth circumference is very near 21600nmi. A minute of arc is ⁠π/10800⁠ of a radian. A second of arc, arcsecond (arcsec), or arc second, denoted by the symbol ″, [ 2 ] is ⁠1/60⁠ of an arcminute, ⁠1/3600⁠ of ...

  6. History of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The division of the circle into 360 degrees and the day into hours, minutes, and seconds can be traced to the Babylonians who had a sexagesimal system of numbers. The 360 degrees may have been related to a year of 360 days. Many other systems of measurement divided the day differently—counting hours, decimal time, etc.

  7. Decimal time - Wikipedia

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    One décime is equal to 10 decimal minutes, which is nearly equal to a quarter-hour (15 minutes) in standard time. Thus, "five hours two décimes" equals 5.2 decimal hours, roughly 12:30 p.m. in standard time. [8][9] One hundredth of a decimal second was a decimal tierce.

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