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New Online Book! Handbook of Mathematical Functions (AMS55)
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hand = 0.1016 length
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Related Measurements:
Try converting from "hand" to angstrom, astronomical unit, bolt (of cloth), bottom measure, caliber (gun barrel caliber), cloth finger, cloth quarter, fathom, football field, French, Greek palm, Greek span, ken (Japanese ken), marathon, mil, mile, nail (cloth nail), pica (typography pica), rope, stadium (Roman stadium), 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), 160 bottom measure, .88888889 cloth finger, 2.64E-10 earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), .05555556 fathom, 4.57 finger, .00111111 football field, .13717421 gradus (Roman gradus), .05488474 Greek fathom, .04796163 ken (Japanese ken), 1.07E-17 light yr (light year), .1016 m (meter), 101,600 micron, 4,000 mil, .0037037 naval shot, 289.08 point (typography point), .00002587 ri (Japanese ri), .01666667 rope, 3.35 sun (Japanese sun), .12124886 vara (Mexican vara).

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