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When England changed to a shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and square yards in an acre.
Besides having the meaning "any obscure unit", [4] the derived unit furlongs per fortnight has also served frequently in classroom examples of unit conversion and dimensional analysis. [5] [6] The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements.
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Threescore: 60 Three score (3x20) Large: 1,000 Slang for one thousand Myriad: 10,000 Loosely refers to a very large quantity Pair: 2 Often in reference to identical objects Trio: 3 Referring to people working or collaborating especially in musical performance Few: 3 Small number of something Quartet: 4
While usually sub-second units are represented with SI prefixes on the second (e.g. milliseconds), this system can be extrapolated further, such that a "Third" would mean 1 ⁄ 60 of a second (16.7 milliseconds), and a "Fourth" would mean 1 ⁄ 60 of a third (278 microseconds), etc. These units are occasionally used in astronomy to denote angles.
The Derby's exact distance is 1 mile 4 furlongs and 6 yards, but it is called a 1 mile 4 furlong race. The races in bold are run on an all-weather surface. Races are run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket unless 'Newmarket (July)' is written, in which the July Course is used.
Martin Short is the latest celeb to make Saturday Night Live history, joining an elite group of performers who have hosted SNL at least five times — so it's only right that the other stars come ...
A number system with base 60 is called sexagesimal (the original meaning of sexagesimal is sixtieth). It is the smallest positive integer that is written with only the smallest and the largest digit of base 2 ( binary ), base 3 ( ternary ), and base 4 ( quaternary ).