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New Online Book! Handbook of Mathematical Functions (AMS55)
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hand = 0.1016 meter
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Related Measurements:
Try converting from "hand" to astronomical unit, chain (surveyors chain), city block (informal), ell, en (typography en), furlong (surveyors furlong), Greek fathom, Israeli cubit, league, link (surveyors link), m (meter), marathon, micron, nautical league, naval shot, ri (Japanese ri), rod (surveyors rod), Roman cubit, Roman mile, shaku (Japanese shaku), or any combination of units which equate to "length" and represent depth, fl head, height, length, wavelength, or width.
Sample Conversions:
hand = .14285714 archin (Russian archin), .00000229 arpentcan, .00505051 chain (surveyors chain), 5.48 digitus (Roman digitus), 2.64E-10 earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), .00333333 engineers chain, 101,600,000,000,000 fermi, .00111111 football field, 304.8 French, .05488474 Greek fathom, .0001576 li (Chinese li), 48 line, 101,600 micron, 1.78 nail (cloth nail), .00001829 nautical league, 3.29E-18 parsec, .22857143 Roman cubit, .34328871 Roman foot, .01666667 rope, .00054885 stadia (Greek stadia).

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