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A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.It is equal to 1 / 36 yard or 1 / 12 of a foot.
The precise origins of the dimensions of US letter-size paper (8.5 × 11 in) are not known. The American Forest & Paper Association says that the standard US dimensions have their origin in the days of manual papermaking, the 11-inch length of the standard paper being about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms". [2]
Catalog misses' sizes: 5 ft 5 in-5 ft 6 in (165–168 cm) tall, average bust, average back Dimension/size 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 Closest standard size 10: 12: 14: 16: 18: 20: 22 Est. height 5 ft 4 in (162.5 cm) 5 ft 4 in (162.5 cm) 5 ft 4.5 in (164 cm) 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) 5 ft 4 in (162.5 cm) 5 ft 6.5 in (169 cm) 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) 5 ft 6 in ...
The three-by-five 三五判 (3×5 or 3/5), where the final size at 32K is slightly less than 3 by 5 sun, often given as 84 × 148 mm which would be c. 2.8 × 4.9 sun. The 4/6 standard has given rise to newer metric book-size standards, including: The modern Japanese size for books, simply labeled B and is specified as 765 × 1085 millimeters
To convert inches to hands, the number in inches is divided by four, then the remainder is added after the radix point. Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 × 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 × 4 + 2 = 62) [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 ...
In less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches. That shouldn't happen. So why did it?
The following table is adapted from the scale of the American Library Association, [1] [9] which uses a basis sheet of 19-by-25-inch (483 by 635 mm) [10] which is, confusingly if not explained by the source, half the text/book stock sheet of 25-by-38-inch (635 by 965 mm), and in which size refers to the dimensions of the cover (trimmed pages ...
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