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5 Feet & Shorter
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres. more...
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Conversions
1 metre is:
100 centimetres;
1000 millimetres;
39.37 inches;
3.28 feet;
side of square with area 1 m²;
edge of cube with surface area 6 m² and volume 1 m³;
radius of circle with area 3.14 m²;
radius of sphere with surface area 12.56 m² and volume 4.19 m³;
Wavelengths
1.00 m — wavelength of the highest VHF radio frequency, 300 MHz;
2.77 m — minimum wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87 MHz;
10.0 m — wavelength of the lowest + (-) VHF radio frequency, 30 MHz;
Sports
3.05 m — (10 feet) height of the basket in basketball;
Human-built structures
1.435 m — Standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4' 8½";
3.05 m — The length of an old Mini;
8.38 m — The length of a London Bus (Routemaster);
Nature
1 m — height of Homo floresiensis (the "Hobbit");
1.15 m — a pizote (mammal);
1.37 m — average height of an Andamanese person;
1.63 m — (5 feet 4 inches) (or 64 inches) - height of average US female human as of 2002 (source: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)).;
1.77 m — (5 feet 9.5 inches) - height of average US male human as of 2002 (source: US CDC as per female above);
3.63 m — the record wingspan for living birds (a Wandering Albatross);
5.20 m — height of a giraffe;
5.5 m — height of a Baluchitherium, the largest land mammal ever lived;
7 m — wingspan of Argentavis, the largest flying bird known;
7.50 m — approximate length of the human gastrointestinal tract;
Astronomical
3 - 6 m — approximate diameter of 2003 SQ222, a meteoroid;
Distances longer than 10 m
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