Units of measurement

Unit of fame or hype, derived from Andy Warhol's dictum "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes" - it represents, naturally, fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol - famous for 15000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric nine day's wonder. 1 megawarhol - famous for 15 million minutes, or 28.5 years. The type of person your parents talk about all the time, but of whom you've never heard from ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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Both the Imperial units and US customary units derive from earlier English units. Imperial units were mostly used in the British Commonwealth and the former British Empire. They are still used to some extent but have now been mostly replaced by the metric system. US customary units are the main system of measurement in the United States however some steps towards metrication have been made. The metric syste ...

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Systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - The metric system, Systems of measurement - Imperial and US customary units, Systems of measurement - Natural units, Systems of measurement - Atomic units, Systems of measurement - Non-standard units, Systems of measurement - Units of currency, Systems of measurement - Historical systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient Mediterranean systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient South Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient East Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Islamic measurements, Systems of measurement - Mediæval European measurements, Systems of measurement - Other historical systems of measurement

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See:- Units of measurement for relevence to weights and measures. Unit of account for relevance in economics. Other related archivesUnit of account, Units of measurement, economics, weights and measures

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Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Dry volume. Dry volume measures were slightly different for various types of grain, but often bore the same name. Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Fluid. Gill Mutchkin Chopin Pint (Scots)/Joug Gallon ...

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Obsolete Scottish units of measurement, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Length, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area by size, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Area by production, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Volume, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Dry volume, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Fluid, Obsolete Scottish units of measurement - Weight

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Prior to the global adoption of the metric system many different systems of measurement had been in use. Many of these were related to some extent or other. Often they were based on the dimensions of the human body. Throughout the history of measurement, many of the units that have been used in Europe and around the Mediterranean are variations on older systems originating in the ancient Near East. Systems of measurement - Ancient Mediterranean syst ...

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Systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - The metric system, Systems of measurement - Imperial and US customary units, Systems of measurement - Natural units, Systems of measurement - Atomic units, Systems of measurement - Non-standard units, Systems of measurement - Units of currency, Systems of measurement - Historical systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient Mediterranean systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient South Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Ancient East Asian systems of measurement, Systems of measurement - Islamic measurements, Systems of measurement - Mediæval European measurements, Systems of measurement - Other historical systems of measurement

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A notional unit of comfortable seating size; it can be used to describe both the width of a seat, or the width of a seat which a person needs to be comfortable in. Named for writer and book reviewer Daniel Pinkwater, and was coined by 'Click and Clack', the hosts of the Car Talk radio show. ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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Another derived time unit, reducing a rather large time span (century) by preceding it with a fractional prefix (nano). As Tom Duff at Bell Labs pointed out: "How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 × 107, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, π seconds is a nanocentury."[5] One computer science professor used to characterize the standard lengt ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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In the United States, this refers to the length American football field, which has a playing area 100 yards (91.44 meters) long. This is often used by the American public media for the sizes of large buildings or parks: easily walkable but non-trivial distances. Note that it is a unit of length and not area. In many countries, a soccer field is used as an approximate unit of area, especially for new developments which cover large areas. ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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While most countries have Le Système International d’Unités (SI), this seems to be one more reason to delve into the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of units of measurement which draws its attraction from being conservative and off-beat at the same time. List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units. Additionally, the Fahrenheit is usually considered the unit of temperature in FFF. List of stra ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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When things started to take off for the data storage version of the Compact disc, called CD-ROM, journalists had to compare the amount of 650 MB disc space to something everyone could imagine. It turned out to measure the storage size of a CD-ROM with the amount of written text in the Bible, as most Western households have a Bible in their home to compare size. Nowadays, with high capacity media like DVD and Blu-Ray, and high speed optical fiber dat ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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In the United States, this refers to the length American football field, which has a playing area 100 yards (91.44 meters) long. This is often used by the American public media for the sizes of large buildings or parks: easily walkable but non-trivial distances. Note that it is a unit of length and not area. In many countries, a soccer field is used as an approximate unit of area, especially for new developments which cover large areas. ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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The amount of beauty that can launch one thousand ships. Usually used as the millihelen, the amount of beauty that can launch one ship. Named after Helen of Troy, from the Iliad. Inspired by Marlowe's line from the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships...?". Negative values have also been observed - these, of course, are measured by the number of ships sunk. Microhelens are, as one-tenth of the beauty required to motivate one sailor, sometimes given ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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There are also some obscure units used within the metric system(s). The issue is basically, that with arbitrary units and prefixes you can express a common unit with an unfamiliar term. For instance, the French at first preferred the are, which is 100 m², as base unit for areas; the square metre (m²) becomes a centiare (ca). Only the base unit and hectare (ha) saw a wider use and are still in use in some countries. Some also used the stere (st) equalling a cubic metre (m³), so the litre (l), which is a ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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In Finland, the standard yardstick for large amounts of alcohol is the Koskenkorva bottle, 0.5 liters at 38%, which works out to be 0.19 liters of pure alcohol. Incidentally, the average yearly consumption of alcohol in Finland, which is about 10 liters per capita, is also 52 Koskenkorva bottles or exactly one Koskenkorva bottle per week. For example, in an official release of the Finnish Customs: The amount of confiscated a ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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A computer programming expression, pronounced kay-lok, standing for "Kilo-Lines of Code", i.e. "Thousand Lines of Code". Used, especially by IBM managers, to express the amount of work required to develop a piece of software. Given that estimates of 20 lines of functional bug-free code per day per programmer were often used, it is apparent that 1 KLOC could take one programmer as long as 50 working days, or 10 working weeks. This n ...

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List of strange units of measurement, List of strange units of measurement - Attoparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Barn-megaparsec, List of strange units of measurement - Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Books and Bible, List of strange units of measurement - Cigarette, List of strange units of measurement - Coffee, List of strange units of measurement - Cut-lunch-and-a-water-bag, List of strange units of measurement - Distance, List of strange units of measurement - Double-decker bus, List of strange units of measurement - FFF, List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units, List of strange units of measurement - FFF derived units, List of strange units of measurement - Football field, List of strange units of measurement - Gillette, List of strange units of measurement - Happy, List of strange units of measurement - Helen, List of strange units of measurement - Hobo Power, List of strange units of measurement - Jiffy, List of strange units of measurement - KLOC or K-LOC, List of strange units of measurement - Koskenkorva bottle, List of strange units of measurement - Library of Congress, List of strange units of measurement - Metric, List of strange units of measurement - Microbit, List of strange units of measurement - Mikrotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Morgan, List of strange units of measurement - Nanoacre, List of strange units of measurement - Nanocentury, List of strange units of measurement - Nanosecond, List of strange units of measurement - Nelson's Column / Double-decker Bus, List of strange units of measurement - Nibble, List of strange units of measurement - Pikotuki, List of strange units of measurement - Pinkwater, List of strange units of measurement - Poronkusema, List of strange units of measurement - Potrzebie, List of strange units of measurement - Realtor's Throw, List of strange units of measurement - Rhode Island/Texas/Alaska/Washington D.C., List of strange units of measurement - Rods to the Hogshead, List of strange units of measurement - Seemeilen/Woche, List of strange units of measurement - SI-Imperial hybrids, List of strange units of measurement - Siriometer, List of strange units of measurement - Smoot, List of strange units of measurement - Stone's throw/Spitting distance, List of strange units of measurement - Sydharb, List of strange units of measurement - Tall Buildings, List of strange units of measurement - Wales/Belgium, List of strange units of measurement - Warhol

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The units of area in the U.S. customary system are mostly based on the units of length squared, e.g., square inch (sq in, 645.16 mm²). Since the U.S. customary system has two differing definitions of the foot (international and survey), there are also two differing definitions for the square foot. 1 square foot (sq ft) = 144 sq in = 929.0304 cm² 1 square rod (sq rd) = 272.25 sq ft = 25.29285264 m² 1 acre = 10 sq ch = 1 fur × 1 ch = 160 sq rd = 43,560 sq ft = 0.404685642 hectares = 4046.8564224 m² 1 square mile (sq mi) = 27,878,400 sq ft = 3, ...

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The swift worldwide adoption of the metric system as a tool of economy and everyday commerce was based mainly on the lack of customary systems in many countries to adequately describe some concepts, or as a result of an attempt to standardize the many regional variations in the customary system. International factors also affected the adoption of the metric system, as many countries increased their trade. Scientifically, it provides ease when dealing with very large and small quantities because it lines up so ...

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A unit described by Theodore Maiman as an early measure of Laser output power. The measure was simply the number of razor blades through which the laser could burn a hole. This measurement was especially convenient as the first Lasers were pulsed Ruby Lasers, making it otherwise difficult to measure the output power. Also, due to the relative uniformity of razor blades manufactured by The Gillette Company, it had some usefulness as a rough comparison. Thus, scientists would brag about having a "4 Gillette" laser versus their competitor's puny "2 Gillette" laser. (For the record, ...

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While most countries have Le Système International d’Unités (SI), this seems to be one more reason to delve into the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of units of measurement which draws its attraction from being conservative and off-beat at the same time. List of strange units of measurement - FFF Base units. Additionally, the Fahrenheit is usually considered the unit of temperature in FFF. List of stra ...

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When things started to take off for the data storage version of the Compact disc, called CD-ROM, journalists had to compare the amount of 650 MB disc space to something everyone could imagine. It turned out to measure the storage size of a CD-ROM with the amount of written text in the Bible, as most Western households have a Bible in their home to compare size. Nowadays, with high capacity media like DVD and Blu-Ray, and high speed optical fiber dat ...

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The amount of beauty that can launch one thousand ships. Usually used as the millihelen, the amount of beauty that can launch one ship. Named after Helen of Troy, from the Iliad. Inspired by Marlowe's line from the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships...?". See also: millihelens.com Negative values have also been observed ...

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A computer programming expression, pronounced kay-lok, standing for "Kilo-Lines of Code", i.e. "Thousand Lines of Code". Used, especially by IBM managers, to express the amount of work required to develop a piece of software. Given that estimates of 20 lines of functional bug-free code per day per programmer were often used, it is apparent that 1 KLOC could take one programmer as long as 50 working days, or 10 working weeks. This n ...

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