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Brannock Device [1] Brannock Device at shoe museum in Zlín, Czechia. The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size.
The recent formula used by the Brannock device assumes a foot length of 2 barleycorns less than the length of the last; thus, men's size 1 is equivalent to a last's length of 8 + 1 ⁄ 3 in (21.17 cm) and foot's length of 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (19.47 cm), and children's size 1 is equivalent to 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (10.8 cm) last's length and 3 + 7 ⁄ 12 in ...
Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are to a power of 10, most commonly 100, and exceptionally 1000; and ...
Equal to Metric equivalent Imperial equivalent Description uncia Roman ounce 1 ⁄ 12 libra 27.4 g 0.967 oz lit. "a twelfth" [20] sescuncia or sescunx 1 ⁄ 8 libra 41.1 g 1.45 oz lit. "one and one-half twelfths" sextans 1 ⁄ 6 libra 54.8 g 1.93 oz lit. "a sixth" quadrans teruncius 1 ⁄ 4 libra 82.2 g 2.90 oz lit. "a fourth" lit.
The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) [1] is an English and British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois pounds (6.35 kg). [nb 1] The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom and Ireland for body weight.
[1]: 143–144 [7] [8] [9] Most prefixes correspond to integer powers of 1000; the only ones that do not are those for 10, 1/10, 100, and 1/100. The conversion between different SI units for one and the same physical quantity is always through a power of ten.
(b) sales main draw = €2.20 in pounds sterling per entry (exchange rate!) times number of entries (X) draw 1 to 5: 50% + 10% & draw 6 (or higher): 42% + 18% (c) expected winnings are based on the currency exchange rate as at 7 December 2019, 1 euro = 0.8419 pound, rounded to 1 pound; The odds of winning any prize at all are 1 in 13
However, both world record in euro and in pound sterling were broken by Real themselves when signing Cristiano Ronaldo for £80m (€94m) from Manchester United in the same transfer window, [70] [83] Four years later Real Madrid broke the record again after completed the signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013. Although Real ...