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New Online Book! Handbook of Mathematical Functions (AMS55)
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hand = 0.1016 length
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Try converting from "hand" to caliber (gun barrel caliber), chain (surveyors chain), cloth quarter, fathom, gradus (Roman gradus), Greek fathom, Israeli cubit, ken (Japanese ken), li (Chinese li), light yr (light year), m (meter), nail (cloth nail), naval shot, parasang, Roman cubit, Roman foot, sazhen (Russian sazhen), skein, stadium (Roman stadium), survey foot, or any combination of units which equate to "length" and represent depth, fl head, height, length, wavelength, or width.
Sample Conversions:
hand = .00286369 actus (Roman actus), 56 agate (typography agate), .14285714 archin (Russian archin), 12 barleycorn, 160 bottom measure, .00111111 city block (informal), .44444444 cloth quarter, 2.64E-10 earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), .00050505 furlong (surveyors furlong), 4 inch, .18348624 Israeli cubit, .00002104 league, .1016 m (meter), 101,600 micron, 4,000 mil, 24 pica (typography pica), 289.08 point (typography point), .34328871 Roman foot, .00000772 spindle, .12124886 vara (Mexican vara).

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