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Instructions. The template is intended for conversion of heights specified in either feet and inches, or metric units (centimetres or metres). Metric units are converted to feet and inches, and feet and inches are converted to metres, or optionally to centimetres. As this template is intended for use in infoboxes, the units on both sides of the ...
30.48 cm. 304.8 mm. The foot ( pl. feet; standard symbol: ft) [1] [2] is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. [3] In both customary and imperial units, one foot comprises 12 inches, and one yard comprises three feet.
Human height. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.
A centimetre (International spelling) or centimeter ( American spelling ), with SI symbol cm, is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one hundredth of a metre, centi being the SI prefix for a factor of 1 100. [1] Equivalently, there are 100 centimetres in 1 metre. The centimetre was the base unit of length in the ...
PMC 6475134. PMID 31024758. The mean height of young Montenegrin males aged 17–20 years is 183.4 cm (Popović, 2017), although this value would slightly decrease to 182.9 cm, if we took population size in individual municipalities into account.
30.48 cm = 3.048 dm — 1 foot. 30 cm = 3 dm — typical school-use ruler length (= 300 mm) 60 cm = 6 dm — standard depth (front to back) of a domestic kitchen worktop in Europe (= 600 mm) 90 cm = 9 dm — average length of a rapier, a fencing sword [35] 91.44 cm = 9.144 dm — one yard. Cigarettes 100 mm (4 in) in length.
Imperial/U.S. The basic unit of length in the imperial and U.S. customary systems is the yard, defined as exactly 0.9144 m by international treaty in 1959. [2] [5] Common imperial units and U.S. customary units of length include: [6] thou or mil ( 1⁄1000 of an inch) inch ( 25.4 mm) foot (12 inches, 0.3048 m) yard (3 feet, 0.9144 m)
The recent formula used by the Brannock device assumes a foot length of 2 barleycorns less than the length of the last; thus, men's size 1 is equivalent to a last's length of 8 + 1 ⁄ 3 in (21.17 cm) and foot's length of 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 in (19.47 cm), and children's size 1 is equivalent to 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in (10.8 cm) last's length and 3 + 7 ⁄ 12 in ...