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  2. String girdling Earth - Wikipedia

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    [1] This diagram gives a visual analogue using a square: regardless of the size of the square, the added perimeter is the sum of the four blue arcs, a circle with the same radius as the offset. More formally, let c be the Earth's circumference, r its radius, Δc the added string length and Δr the added radius.

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) and a circle about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) in radius. To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between one meter and ten meters. Light, in vacuum, travels 1 meter in 1 ⁄ 299,792,458, or 3.3356409519815E-9 of a second.

  4. Orders of magnitude (area) - Wikipedia

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    1 square yoctometre (ym 2) 1 ym 2 10 −43 100,000 ym 2: 1 femtobarn [3] 10 −42: 1 square zeptometre (zm 2) 1 zm 2 10 −36: 1 square attometre (am 2) 1 am 2 10 −30: 1 square femtometre (fm 2) 1 fm 2 10 −29 66.52 fm 2: Thomson cross-section of the electron [4] 10 −28 100 fm 2: 1 barn, roughly the cross-sectional area of a uranium ...

  5. Geographical mile - Wikipedia

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    When each equatorial degree was divided into 18 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to ⁠ 1 / 54 ⁠ degree or about 2.06 kilometres (1.28 mi); when divided into 20 leagues, the geographical mile was equal to ⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ degree, approximating the values provided above; and when divided into 25 leagues, the geographical mile was equal ...

  6. Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and ...

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    On May 18, 1796, Congress passed "an Act for the sale of land of the United States in the territory northwest of the River Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky River". This law defined a survey grid system of 6–milesquare townships divided into 1milesquare sections, with the defining unit being the chain, specifically Gunter's ...

  7. Data mile - Wikipedia

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    In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to 6,000 feet (1,829 metres; 0.9875 nautical miles; 1.136 miles). An international mile is 0.88 data mile. The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second (983,571,056 ft/s), or about one foot per nanosecond .

  8. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Respectively, these square divisions of land are approximately 80 chains (one mile or 1.6 km), 40 chains (half a mile or 800 m), and 20 chains (a quarter mile or 400 m) on a side. The chain is still used in agriculture: measuring wheels with a circumference of 0.1 chain (diameter ≈ 2.1 ft or 64 cm) are still readily available in Canada and ...

  9. Li (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Li or ri (Chinese: 里, lǐ, or 市里, shìlǐ), also known as the Chinese mile, [citation needed] is a traditional Chinese unit of distance. The li has varied considerably over time but was usually about one third of an English mile and now has a standardized length of a half- kilometer (500 meters or 1,640 feet or 0.311 miles ).