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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    2.54 cm – 1 inch; 3.08568 cm – 1 attoparsec; 3.4 cm – length of a quail egg [112] 3.5 cm – width of film commonly used in motion pictures and still photography; 3.78 cm – amount of distance the Moon moves away from Earth each year [113] 4.3 cm – minimum diameter of a golf ball [114] 5 cm – usual diameter of a chicken egg

  3. Hand (unit) - Wikipedia

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    To convert inches to hands, the number in inches is divided by four, then the remainder is added after the radix point. Thus, a horse that measures 60 inches is 15 hands high (15 × 4 = 60) and a horse halfway between 15 and 16 hands is 15.2 hands, or 62 inches tall (15 × 4 + 2 = 62) [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Because the subdivision of a hand is a base 4 ...

  4. Inch - Wikipedia

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    A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement.It is equal to ⁠ 1 / 36 ⁠ yard or ⁠ 1 / 12 ⁠ of a foot.

  5. List of rail transport modelling scale standards - Wikipedia

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    A worldwide garden railroad scale. Corresponds to NEM III and NMRA 3 ⁄ 4 inch. -1:12: 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (121 mm) North America specific scale corresponding to NMRA 1-inch scale. 1:12 is one of the most popular backyard railway scales. -1:11: 5 in (127 mm) Used outside North America. Corresponds to NEM V. One of the most popular garden railway ...

  6. Metre - Wikipedia

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    The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of ⁠ 1 / 299 792 458 ⁠ of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium.

  7. Mount Wilson Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The 60-inch (1.5 m) telescope at Mt. Wilson. For the 60-inch telescope, George Ellery Hale received the 60-inch (1.5 m) mirror blank, cast by Saint-Gobain in France, in 1896 as a gift from his father, William Hale. It was a glass disk 19 cm thick and weighing 860 kg.

  8. I’m 58 years old and have $1.5M in savings — how much can I ...

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    If you have a $1.5 million nest egg, the 4% rule means you can withdraw $60,000 the first year and then just adjust that amount for inflation in the following years.

  9. Syzygium acre - Wikipedia

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    Syzygium acre is a pachycaul "palmoid" tree which grows up to 33 feet (10 meters) in height. It is usually unbranched, but it can have two or three vertical reiterations with a rosette of enormous leaves at the top of each, [1] with each leaf growing to five feet (1.5 meters) in length by 16 inches (38 cm) wide.