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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    31 meters – wavelength of the broadcast radio shortwave band at 9.7 MHz; 32 meters – length of one arcsecond of latitude on the surface of the Earth; 33.3 meters – height of the De Noord, the tallest windmill in the world; 34 meters – height of the Split Point Lighthouse in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia

  3. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The nanoacre is a unit of real estate on a very-large-scale integration (VLSI) chip equal to 0.00627264 sq in (4.0468564224 mm 2) or the area of a square of side length 0.0792 in (2.01168 mm). VLSI nanoacres have similar total costs to acres in Silicon Valley.

  4. Unit of length - Wikipedia

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    The base unit in the International System of Units (SI) is the meter, defined as "the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 seconds." [ 4 ] It is approximately equal to 1.0936 yd .

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The measurement of time is unique in SI in that while the second is the base unit, and measurements of time smaller than a second use prefixed units smaller than a second (e.g. microsecond, nanosecond, etc.), measurements larger than a second instead use traditional divisions, including the sexagesimal-based minute and hour as well as the less ...

  6. One Times Square - Wikipedia

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    One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lighted news ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building to Douglas Leigh in 1961. Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker ...

  7. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    1 km 2 means one square kilometre, or the area of a square of 1000 m by 1000 m. In other words, an area of 1 000 000 square metres and not 1000 square metres. 2 Mm 3 means two cubic megametres, or the volume of two cubes of 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m, i.e. 2 × 10 18 m 3, and not 2 000 000 cubic metres (2 × 10 6 m 3).

  8. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    The flow of ⁠ 1 / 1.602 176 634 × 10 −19 ⁠ times the elementary charge e per second, which is approximately 6.241 509 0744 × 10 18 elementary charges per second. kelvin K

  9. Outline of the metric system - Wikipedia

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    "The metric system is for all people for all time." (Condorcet 1791) Four objects used in making measurements in everyday situations that have metric calibrations are shown: a tape measure calibrated in centimetres, a thermometer calibrated in degrees Celsius, a kilogram mass, and an electrical multimeter which measures volts, amps and ohms.