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2.54 centimeters (1 inch is exactly 2.54 cm) ... After 1066, 1 inch was equal to 3 barleycorns, which continued to be its legal definition for several centuries, ...
1.7 cm – length of a Thorius arboreus, the smallest salamander [112] 2 cm – approximate width of an adult human finger; 2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec; 3.4 cm – length of a quail egg [113] 3.5 cm – width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography
Centimeters (cm) are avoided as they cause confusion when reading plans. For example, the length two and a half meters is usually recorded as 2500 mm or 2.5 m; it would be considered non-standard to record this length as 250 cm. [7] [8]
The system was slightly revised in 1735. In 1855, a decimal reform was instituted that defined a new Swedish inch as 1 ⁄ 10 Swedish foot (2.96 cm or 1.17 inches). Up to the middle of the 19th century, there was a law allowing the imposition of the death penalty for falsifying weights or measures.
till 1934: 5 twin 7.9-inch type D 40° from 1934: 5 twin 8.0-inch type D 40° Takao-class heavy cruisers Takao, Atago, Chokai. 5 twin 8.0-inch type E 70° Maya. 5 twin 8.0-inch type E 55° Mogami-class heavy cruisers: Mogami, Mikuma, Kumano, Suzuya. till 1939: 5 triple 6.1-inch 55° (classified as light cruiser) from 1939: 5 twin 8.0-inch type ...
Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 and a specific heat of .31416"), and time in seven named units (decimal powers of the average earth rotation, equal to 1 "clarke").
Estimated between 1.73 cm (0.68 inches) to 1.91 cm (0.75 inches). [12] [note 4] 6 finger 1 pada (the breadth of a foot) other sources define this unit differently: see Pada (foot) 2 pada 1 vitasti (span or distance between the tip of the forefinger and wrist) [13] ~ 22.86 cm (9 inches) 2 vitasti 1 hasta ~ 45.7 cm (18 inches) 2 hasta 1 náriká
Miners also use it as a unit of area equal to 6 feet square (3.34 m 2) in the plane of a vein. [2] In Britain, it can mean the quantity of wood in a pile of any length measuring 6 feet (1.8 m) square in cross section. [2] In Central Europe, the klafter was the corresponding unit of comparable length, as was the toise in France.