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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 agate (typography agate), arpentcan, arpentlin, astronomical unit, barleycorn, bottom measure, caliber (gun barrel caliber), engineers chain, gradus (Roman gradus), Greek palm, light yr (light year), line, micron, mil, point (typography point), ri (Japanese ri), Roman foot, sun (Japanese sun), vara (Mexican vara), verst (Russian verst), or any combination of units which equate to "length" and represent depth, fl head, height, length, wavelength, or width.
Sample Conversions:
hand = .00277778 bolt (of cloth), .88888889 cloth finger, .44444444 cloth quarter, 5.48 digitus (Roman digitus), 2.64E-10 earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), 578.16 en (typography en), 101,600,000,000,000 fermi, .13717421 gradus (Roman gradus), .21953897 Greek cubit, .05488474 Greek fathom, 1.32 Greek palm, 4 inch, .18348624 Israeli cubit, .04796163 ken (Japanese ken), .0001576 li (Chinese li), 1.07E-17 light yr (light year), .00001829 nautical league, 24 pica (typography pica), .44444444 span (cloth span), .33333267 survey foot.

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