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Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), we find that while an extent on 6 bells can be accomplished in half an hour, a full peal on 8 bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours and one on 12 bells would take over thirty years!
1 nautical mile per hour (by definition), 1 852.000 metres per hour (exactly), [5] 0.51444 metres per second (approximately), 1.15078 miles per hour (approximately), 20.25372 inches per second (approximately) 1.68781 feet per second (approximately). The length of the internationally agreed nautical mile is 1 852 m.
Most United States Navy ships of the post–World War II era have actually carried 2 or 3 bells: the larger bell engraved with the ship's name, mounted on the forecastle, and smaller bells in the pilot house and at the quarterdeck at the 1MC (public address) station, for use in making shipwide announcements and marking the time. The larger bell ...
For example, while six bells have 720 permutations, eight bells have 40,320; furthermore, 10! = 3,628,800, and 12! = 479,001,600. Estimating two seconds for each change (a reasonable pace), one finds that while an extent on six bells can be accomplished in half an hour, an extent on eight bells should take nearly twenty-two and a half hours.
2×10 3: UNIVAC I, first American commercially available electronic general-purpose stored program digital computer, 1951 [2] 3×10 3: PDP-1 commercial minicomputer, 1959 [2] 15×10 3: IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator, 1954; 24×10 3: AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, 1957 [2] 30×10 3: IBM 1130 commercial minicomputer, 1965 [2]
Knot (unit), a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour; Kotlin (programming language), uses the .kts file extension for Kotlin script files; Brevig Mission Airport (IATA: KTS) Potassium thiosulfate, a chemical compound commonly abbreviated as KTS. Københavns Tekniske Skole, a school of secondary education in Copenhagen, Denmark
A basic airspeed indicator with the indicated airspeed (IAS) indicated in knots ("Kt" or "Kts" or "KIAS") -- the most common unit of measure for airspeed. Some airspeed indicators in aircraft prior to the mid-1970s indicate in miles per hour plus knots (1 knot = 1.15 mph) or kilometers per hour (1 knot = 1.85 km/h).
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 ...