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New Online Book! Handbook of Mathematical Functions (AMS55)
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Conversion Result:
Japanese shaku = 0.303022 length
            (length)            
Related Measurements:
Try converting from "shaku" to archin (Russian archin), barleycorn, Biblical cubit, bottom measure, chain (surveyors chain), cloth quarter, earth to moon (mean distance earth to moon), engineers chain, foot, French, Greek fathom, hand, link (surveyors link), m (meter), nautical mile, ri (Japanese ri), rod (surveyors rod), span (cloth span), stadia (Greek stadia), vara (Mexican vara), or any combination of units which equate to "length" and represent depth, fl head, height, length, wavelength, or width.
Sample Conversions:
shaku = .42607143 archin (Russian archin), 35.79 barleycorn, .66277778 Biblical cubit, .00138079 cable length, 1,193 caliber (gun barrel caliber), .01506313 chain (surveyors chain), .26511111 ell, .00994167 engineers chain, 303,022,000,000,000 fermi, .65477497 Greek cubit, 2.98 hand, .54724771 Israeli cubit, .00047006 li (Chinese li), .00000718 marathon, 862.18 point (typography point), .00020477 Roman mile, .04970833 rope, .14408213 sazhen (Russian sazhen), .00164054 stadium (Roman stadium), .99416468 survey foot.

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