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  2. Catty - Wikipedia

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    The catty or kati is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1 ⁄ 16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan (鈞) is 30 catties.

  3. Nepalese customary units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 Paisa (पैसा) = 4 Daam (दाम) = 7.95 m 2 = 85.56 sq. ft. 1 Daam (दाम) = 1.99 m 2 = 21.39 sq. ft. The units of measurement of area of land depends on the part of the country where they are being used, with the Bigha-Katha-Dhur measurements common in the Terai region while the Ropani-Aana measurements are common in hilly and ...

  4. Rocket sled - Wikipedia

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    (1.435 m) 171 Welded 1949 1959 1963 Also known as South Base Sled Track (SBST). Rails used to lengthen HHSTT Rail Track Rocket Sled Test Facility [7] [8] Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory Range, Ramgarh, Haryana India 3.8 km (12,467 ft) 0.7–4.86 m

  5. Split-rail fence - Wikipedia

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    Simple split-rail fence Log fence with double posts (photo taken in 1938). A split-rail fence, log fence, or buck-and-rail fence (also historically known as a Virginia, zigzag, worm, snake or snake-rail fence due to its meandering layout) is a type of fence constructed in the United States and Canada, and is made out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into rails and typically used for ...

  6. Minimum railway curve radius - Wikipedia

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    90-foot (27.43 m) radii on the elevated 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Chicago 'L'. There is no room for longer radii at this cross junction in the northwest corner of the Loop . The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centerline of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.

  7. Dakar–Niger Railway - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Transrail, a company owned by Canac-Getma (comprising the former Canadian National Railway rail consultancy subsidiary Canac and France's Getma) took over management of the line. Canac was acquired in 2004 by the American firm Savage Companies, and Savage sold its Transrail shares to Belgium's Vecturis in 2007.

  8. Rail fence cipher - Wikipedia

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    In the rail fence cipher, the plaintext is written downwards diagonally on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, then moving up when the bottom rail is reached, down again when the top rail is reached, and so on until the whole plaintext is written out. The ciphertext is then read off in rows.

  9. File:Basic physics formula triangles.svg - Wikipedia

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    basic physics formula triangles: Image title: Image mnemonics in the style of the Ohm's law formula triangle for high-school physics by CMG Lee. Covering the unknown in each mnemonic gives the formula in terms of the remaining parameters. In the SVG file, hover over a symbol for its meaning and formula. Width: 100%: Height: 100%