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hand = 0.1016 length
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Sample Conversions:
hand = 1,016,000,000 angstrom, .00000229 arpentcan, 12 barleycorn, 160 bottom measure, 400 caliber (gun barrel caliber), .88888889 cloth finger, 2.64E-10 earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), .00333333 engineers chain, 101,600,000,000,000 fermi, 4.57 finger, 4,000 mil, 1.78 nail (cloth nail), .13333333 pace, 1.33 palm, 289.08 point (typography point), .02020202 rod (surveyors rod), .22857143 Roman cubit, .04830918 sazhen (Russian sazhen), .33333267 survey foot, .00006313 UK mile (British mile).

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