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2. Rope (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The Byzantine equivalent, the schoinion or "little rope", varied between 60 and 72 Greek feet depending upon the location. The Thai sen of 20 Thai fathoms or 40 m also means and is translated "rope". The Somerset rope was a former English unit used in drainage and hedging. It was 20 feet (now precisely 6.096 m). [1] [2]

3. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   Fistmele - the measure of a clenched hand with the thumb extended; Gradus - Ancient Roman step; Hand - breadth of a human hand; Klafter - German measure of outstretched hands; League - the distance a person can walk in an hour (by one definition) Orgyia - Ancient Greek fathom; Parasang - the distance an infantryman could march in a predefined ...

4. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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   American surveyors use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4 rods, each of 16.5 ft or 100 links of 0.66 feet. A link is abbreviated "lk", and links "lks", in old deeds and land surveys done for the government.

5. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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   Comparison of sizes of semiconductor manufacturing process nodes with some microscopic objects and visible light wavelengths. At this scale, the width of a human hair is about 10 times that of the image. [78] To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −7 and 10 −6 m (100 nm and 1 μm).

6. Ancient Egyptian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   The setat was the basic unit of land measure and may originally have varied in size across Egypt's nomes. [20] Later, it was equal to one square khet, where a khet measured 100 cubits. The setat could be divided into strips one khet long and ten cubit wide (a kha). [2] [6] [37] During the Old Kingdom:

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8. Fid - Wikipedia

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   In addition to holding rope open to assist the creation of a rope splice, modern push fids have markings for precise measurements in a variety of sizes of rope. The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A one-half-inch (12.7 mm) diameter rope would have any accompanying fid 10.5–11 in (266.7 ...

9. Photo of woman crossing her legs on a subway is baffling the ...

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   Sitting with your legs nicely crossed is one thing, but this woman somehow managed to twist her legs around each other nearly three times!