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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]
Typical gear ratios on bicycles range from very low or light gearing around 20 gear inches (1.6 metres per revolution), via medium gearing around 70 gear inches (5.6 m), to very high or heavy gearing around 125 gear inches (10 m). As in a car, low gearing is for going up hills and high gearing is for going fast.
For measuring length, the U.S. customary system uses the inch, foot, yard, and mile, which are the only four customary length measurements in everyday use.From 1893, the foot was legally defined as exactly 1200 ⁄ 3937 m (approximately 0.304 8006 m). [13]
Dimi (metric prefix) – a discontinued non-SI metric prefix for 10 −4 [7] Einstein – unit of energy, and a unit of amount of substance; Fanega – a unit of dry volume, and a unit of area; Fresnel – a unit of frequency; Garce – a unit of dry volume in India, and a unit of mass in Sri Lanka; Hobbit – a unit of volume, or, more rarely ...
Paragraph LXVII sets out the fine for wounds of various depths: one inch, one shilling; two inches, two shillings, etc. [m] An Anglo-Saxon unit of length was the barleycorn. After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, with the barleycorn being the base unit. [22]
The uptick in activity was largely driven by the services sector. The services component of S&P's report showed the index registered 57 this month, up from 55 in October and the highest level in ...
In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet. Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 meters. Historically, the "foot" was a part of many local systems of units, including the Greek, Roman, Chinese, French, and English systems. It varied in ...
20–75 (N= m:44,848 f:51,674, SD= m:7.3 cm (2.9 in) f:6.7 cm (2.6 in)) — Measured: 2014–2017 [76] Germany: 180.8 cm (5 ft 11 in) 167.4 cm (5 ft 6 in) 1.08: 20–29 (N= m:2906 f:3864, SD= m:7.1 cm (2.8 in) f:6.7 cm (2.6 in)) — Measured: 2014–2017 [76] Ghana: 169.5 cm (5 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 158.5 cm (5 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.07: 25–29: 14 ...