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2. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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   4.2333 mm. The pica is a typographic unit of measure corresponding to approximately 1⁄6 of an inch, or from 1⁄68 to 1⁄73 of a foot. One pica is further divided into 12 points. In printing, three pica measures are used: The French pica of 12 Didot points (also called cicero) generally is: 12 × 0.376 = 4.512 mm (0.1776 in).

3. Inch - Wikipedia

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   Subdivisions of an inch are typically written using dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, two and three-eighths of an inch would be written as ⁠2 + 3 / 8 ⁠ ″ and not as 2.375″ nor as ⁠2 + 6 / 16 ⁠ ″. However, for engineering purposes fractions are commonly given to three or four places of decimals and have been ...

4. Help:Convert - Wikipedia

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   A fraction is applied to the output unit (if there is only one), or to non-SI units (if using a combination), except that if a precision is also specified, the fraction only applies to the hand unit. {{convert|18.45|in|m|frac=2}} → 18.45 inches ( 1 ⁄ 2 m)

5. Betelgeuse - Wikipedia

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   As the Earth orbits the Sun, every star is seen to shift by a fraction of an arc second, which measure, combined with the baseline provided by the Earth's orbit gives the distance to that star. Since the first successful parallax measurement by Friedrich Bessel in 1838, astronomers have been puzzled by Betelgeuse's apparent distance.

6. Paper size - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1/2 4 = 0.0625 ... if a sheet 17 × 11 inches is to be folded to divide the sheet into two 8.5 × 11 halves, ...

7. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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   Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and sources should be consulted for details on methodology and the exact populations measured, surveyed, or considered.