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  2. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The last is typically longer than the foot heel to toe length by 4 ⁄ 3 cm (13.33 mm) to 5 ⁄ 3 cm (16.67 mm), or 2 to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 Paris points, so to determine the shoe size based on actual foot length one must add 2 Paris points.

  3. List of disk drive form factors - Wikipedia

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    5.75 in × 3.25 in × 8 in (146.1 mm × 82.55 mm × 203 mm). This smaller form factor, first used in an HDD by Seagate in 1980, was the same size as full-height 51⁄4 -inch-diameter (130 mm) FDD, 3.25-inches high. This is twice as high as "half height"; i.e., 1.63 in (41.4 mm). Most desktop models of drives for optical 120 mm disks (DVD, CD ...

  4. Floppy disk - Wikipedia

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    8-inch floppy disk, inserted in drive, (3½-inch floppy diskette, in front, shown for scale) 3½-inch, high-density floppy diskettes with adhesive labels affixed The first commercial floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, were 8 inches (203.2 mm) in diameter; [4] [5] they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and both drives and disks were then sold ...

  5. QF 4.5-inch howitzer - Wikipedia

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    QF 4.5-inch howitzer. 114 x73-86 mm R separate QF. HE shell 16 kg (35 lb) The Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzer was the standard British Empire field (or "light") howitzer of the First World War era. It replaced the BL 5-inch howitzer and equipped some 25% of the field artillery. It entered service in 1910 and remained in service through the ...

  6. QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun - Wikipedia

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    From the BL Mark I gun of 1916 the 4.7-inch (120 mm) calibre was the mid-calibre weapon of the Royal Navy, used particularly on destroyers. Apart from some ships armed with QF 4-inch Mk V guns due to shortages, it remained the standard weapon for destroyers up to the W-class destroyers of 1943. Its usefulness as an anti-aircraft weapon had been ...

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The centimetre (SI symbol: cm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10−2 metres (⁠ 1 100 ⁠ m = 0.01 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −2 m and 10 −1 m (1 cm and 1 dm). 1 cm – 10 millimetres. 1 cm – 0.39 inches. 1 cm – edge of a square of area 1 cm 2.

  8. BL 4.5-inch medium field gun - Wikipedia

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    The 4.5 inch field gun could fire a 25 kg HE shell up to 11.6 miles with Charge 3. It matched German 10.5 cm and 150 mm howitzers in range and firepower. [citation needed] For the sake of expediency, Mk I ordnance was designed to be mounted on the 1918 60-pounder carriage.

  9. BL 5.5-inch medium gun - Wikipedia

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    Back of British Ordnance BL 5.5 inch (140 mm) M3 medium gun from year 1939, displayed in Hämeenlinna Artillery Museum. A British gunner uses the dial sight and range scale plate of a 5.5-inch gun in 1944. Canadian signaler with shells during a shoot, France July 1944. A BL 5.5 at the base of the Italian Army 's 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment.