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  2. 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 ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The picometre (SI symbol: pm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10 −12 metres (⁠ 1 / 1 000 000 000 000 ⁠ m = 0. 000 000 000 001 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude this section lists lengths between 10 −12 and 10 −11 m (1 pm and 10 pm).

  4. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    square foot 1 pes qu. 0.0876 m 2 0.943 sq ft scrupulum or decempeda quadrata 100 pedes qu. 8.76 m 2 94.3 sq ft the square of the standard 10-foot measuring rod actus simplex 480 pedes qu. 42.1 m 2 453 sq ft 4 × 120 pedes [12] uncia 2,400 pedes qu. 210 m 2 2,260 sq ft clima 3,600 pedes qu. 315 m 2 3,390 sq ft

  5. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  6. List of rivers by discharge - Wikipedia

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    The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [1] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.

  7. Cubit - Wikipedia

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    A royal cubit (gaz-i shāhī) appeared in the 17th century with 95 cm (37 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), while a "shortened" cubit (gaz-i mukassar) of 6.8 cm (2 + 11 ⁄ 16 in) (likely derived from the widely used cloth cubit of Aleppo) was used for cloth. [28] The measure survived into the 20th century, with 1 gaz equal to 104 cm (41 in). [28]

  8. Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Manhattan had more than 520 million square feet (48 million square meters) of office space in 2022, [206] making it the largest office market in the United States; while Midtown Manhattan, with more than 400 million square feet (37 million square meters) is the largest central business district in the world. [207]

  9. History of California (1900–present) - Wikipedia

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    The maximum observed surface displacement was about 20 feet (6.1 m); however, geodetic measurements show displacements of up to 28 feet (8.5 m) in some places. [11] The most recent analysis by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows that the most likely epicenter of the 1906 earthquake was very near Mussel Rock on the coast of Daly ...