Which measurement is a tenth of a Furlong?
"because turning a team of oxen pulling a heavy plough was difficult. This offset the drainage advantages of short furrows and meant furrows were made as long as possible. An acre is an area that is one furlong long and one chain (66 feet or 22 yards) wide. For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length, though in modern usage an area of one acre can be of any shape. The term furlong, or shot, was also used to describe a grouping of adjacent strips within an open field. Among the early Anglo-Saxons, the rod was"
"Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres ( inch). This variation is too small to have practical consequences"
"most practical measurements. Furlong A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and U.S. customary units equal to one eighth of a mile, equivalent to 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, or 10 chains. Using the international definition of the inch as exactly 25.4 millimetres, one furlong is 201.168 metres. However, the United States does not uniformly use this conversion ratio. Older ratios are in use for surveying purposes in some states, leading to variations in the length of the furlong of two parts per million, or about 0.4 millimetres ( inch). This variation is too small to"
"the common length for English Measures four Poles, as answering indifferently to the Englishs Mile and Acre, 10 such Chains in length making a Furlong, and 10 single square Chains an Acre, so that a square Mile contains 640 square Acres."" —John Ogilby, Britannia, 1675 The official use of the furlong was abolished in the United Kingdom under the Weights and Measures Act 1985, an act that also abolished the official use of many other traditional units of measurement. In Myanmar, furlongs are currently used in conjunction with miles to indicate distances on highway signs. Mileposts on the Yangon–Mandalay Expressway"
"the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and"
"two new units of measure— the chain and the link—and a new measuring device: Gunter's chain. Gunter's chain was one chain (one tenth of a furlong) in length and consisted of 100 links, making each link 0.001 furlongs. The decimal nature of these units and of the device made it easy to calculate the area of a rectangle of land in acres and decimal fractions of an acre. In 1670, John Wilkins, the first president of the Royal Society, published his proposal for a decimal system of measure, in his work ""An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical"
"FFF system The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements. The length unit of the system is the furlong, the mass unit is the mass of a firkin of water, and the time unit is the fortnight. Like the SI or meter–kilogram–second systems, there are derived units for velocity, volume, mass and weight, etc. While the FFF system is not used in practice, it has been used as an example in discussions of the relative merits of different systems of units. Some of the FFF units, notably the microfortnight, have been used"
"fortnight. Like the more common furlongs per fortnight, firkins per fortnight have been used with the meaning ""any obscure unit"". FFF system The furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system is a humorous system of units based on unusual or impractical measurements. The length unit of the system is the furlong, the mass unit is the mass of a firkin of water, and the time unit is the fortnight. Like the SI or meter–kilogram–second systems, there are derived units for velocity, volume, mass and weight, etc. While the FFF system is not used in practice, it has been used as an example in discussions"
"in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name ""furlong"" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose"
"in the Hoddle Grid of Melbourne are also one furlong in length. Much of Ontario, Canada, was originally surveyed on a ten-furlong grid, with major roads being laid out along the grid lines. Now that distances are shown on road signs in kilometres, these major roads are almost exactly two kilometres apart. The exits on highways running through Toronto, for example, are generally at intervals of two kilometres. The furlong is also a base unit of the humorous FFF system of units. The exact conversion of the furlong to SI units varies slightly among English-speaking countries. In Canada and the"
"and one furlong. A long, narrow strip of land is more efficient to plough than a square plot, since the plough does not have to be turned so often. The word ""furlong"" itself derives from the fact that it is one furrow long. Before the enactment of the metric system, many countries in Europe used their own official acres. These were differently sized in different countries: for instance, the historical French acre was 4,221 square metres, whereas in Germany there were many variants of ""acre"", differing between the German states: Statutory values for the acre were enacted in England, and"
"meters). There are 10 chains or 40 rods in a furlong (eighth-mile), and so 80 chains or 320 rods in one statute mile (1760 yards, 1609.344 m, 1.609344 km); the definition of which was set by Royal surveyor (called the 'sworn viewer') John Ogilby only after the Great Fire of London (1666). An acre is defined as the area of 10 square chains (that is, an area of one chain by one furlong), and derives from the shapes of new-tech plows and the desire to quickly survey seized church lands into a quantity of squares for quick sales by Henry"
"which has not been activated yet to run the timer. The documentation notes that ""[t]he time unit of micro-fortnights is approximated as seconds in the implementation."" ""Jargon File"" reports that the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and nanofortnight have been occasionally used. One furlong per fortnight is a speed which would be barely noticeable to the naked eye. It converts to: The speed of light is 1.8026 furlongs/fortnight (1.8026 megafurlongs/microfortnight). By mass–energy equivalence, 1 firkin is equal to 3.24936676 formula_1 (approx. or ). In the FFF system, heat transfer coefficients are conventionally reported as BTU per foot-fathom per degree Fahrenheit per"
"Chain (unit) The chain is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards). It is subdivided into 100 links or 4 rods. There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. In metric terms, it is 20.1168 m long. By extension, chainage (running distance) is the distance along a curved or straight survey line from a fixed commencing point, as given by an odometer. The chain has been used for several centuries in England and in some other countries influenced by English practice. In the United Kingdom, there were 80 chains to the"
"7.92 inches long. A quarter chain, or 25 links, measures 5½ yards and thus measures a rod (or pole). Ten chains measure a furlong and 80 chains measure a statute mile. Gunter's chain reconciled two seemingly incompatible systems: the traditional English land measurements, based on the number four, and decimals based on the number 10. Since an acre measured 10 square chains (or 100,000 square links) in Gunter's system, the entire process of land measurement could be computed using measurements in links, and then converted to acres by dividing the results by 100,000. The method of surveying a field or"
"furlongs are currently used in conjunction with miles to indicate distances on highway signs. Mileposts on the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway use miles and furlongs. Zimbabwean milestones are constructed of cast concrete painted white with the kilometre distance indented and painted black. There is no distinction between state and national road-sign markings. They were originally sited every 500 metres by the Rhodesian Ministry of Roads and Road Traffic, starting at zero from the largest town or city. In 1980 the Zimbabwean government began placing new markers 1 km apart and damaged or missing half kilometre markers were no longer replaced. The Railways"
"use miles and furlongs. In the rest of the world, the furlong has very limited use, with the notable exception of horse racing in most English-speaking countries, including Canada and the United States. The distances for horse racing in Australia were converted to metric in 1972; but, in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, races are still given in miles and furlongs. The city of Chicago's street numbering system allots a measure of 800 address units to each mile, in keeping with the city's system of eight blocks per mile. This means that every block in a"
"Rood (unit) A rood () is a historic English and international inch-pound measure of area, as well as an archaic English measure of length. ""Rood"" is an archaic word for ""pole"", from Old English ""rōd"" ""pole"", specifically ""cross"", from Proto-Germanic ""*rodo"", cognate to Old Saxon ""rōda"", Old High German ""ruoda"" ""rod""; the relation of ""rood"" to ""rod"", from Old English ""rodd"" ""pole"", is unclear; the latter was perhaps influenced by Old Norse ""rudda"" ""club"". Rood is an English unit of area, equal to one quarter of an acre or . A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e. 10 chains, or"
"were common markers on the roads in India. Minimum length = 1 Inch<br> No-one can say how it evolved. ""Yinch"" was the thickness of the thumb, not quite one inch.<br> 12 Inches = 1 Foot<br> 3 Feet = 1 Yard<br> 660 Feet = 1 Furlong<br> 5,280 Feet = 1 Mile<br> 1,760 Yards = 1 Mile<br> 1 Mile = 8 Furlongs<br> 22 Yards = 1 Chain<br> 1 Acre = (1 Chain) × (1 Furlong) 1 Canal mile = 5000 imperial feet on canals shown by stone marker each 5000 feet and also on British maps at 1:63360 scale and later Pakistan"
"surrounded by a wall made of jasper. It says in that the height, length, and width are of equal dimensions - as it was with the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle and First Temple - and they measure 12,000 furlongs (which is approximately 1500.3 miles, or 1 furlong = approx 220 yards). John writes that the wall is 144 cubits, which is assumed to be the thickness since the length is mentioned previously. 144 cubits are about equal to 65 meters, or 72 yards. It is important to note that 12 is the square root of 144. The number"
"exchanging N for S and E for W. In other words, ""N 42°35' W"" describes the same boundary as ""S 42°35' E"", but is traversed in the opposite direction. In most distance measures, especially those in older deeds and where measuring distances over a furlong, boundary lengths are listed in rods or poles instead of feet or meters. Rods and poles are equivalent measures equaling 16.5 feet. There are four rods in one chain. The old English surveyors actually carried chains 66 feet in length with which to measure lengths, as well as poles 16.5 feet long, and many older"
"step (""krok""), equalling 3.75 of standard ell, or 2.2333 metres. Two steps made a rod (""pręt"", 4.4665 metres), 2 rods made a stick (""laska""), and five sticks were equal to a cable (""sznur"" of 44.665 metres). Finally 3 cables made up a furlong (""staje"") of roughly 134 metres. In measuring the distance between cities, the basic unit was ""staje"", although it was different from the ""staje"" mentioned before and had the length of roughly 893 metres. Eight ""staje"" made up a Polish mile of 7144 metres. The weights were based on the Polish pound (""funt"" of 0.4052 kg) composed of"
"The charango's ten strings require quite a large headstock, often approaching or even exceeding the size of its diminutive sound box. Aside from these visual distinctions, it resembles something between a bowl-backed mandolin and a small ukulele. The overall length of a typical charango is about 66 cm, with a string scale length of about 37 cm. The number of frets ranges from five to eighteen. The most common form of the instrument has ten strings of nylon, gut, or (less commonly) metal. (Variant forms of the charango may have anywhere from four to fifteen strings, in various combinations of"
"mile to diverge. Owing to the importance of the surveyor's rod in deeds and surveying undertaken under Henry VIII, decreasing the length of the rod by would have amounted to a significant tax increase. Parliament instead opted to maintain the mile of 8 furlongs (which were derived from the rod) and to increase the number of feet per mile from the old Roman value. The applicable passage of the statute reads: ""A Mile shall contain eight Furlongs, every Furlong forty Poles, and every Pole shall contain sixteen Foot and half."" The statute mile therefore contained 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards."
"jokingly in computer science. Besides having the meaning ""any obscure unit"", the derived unit ""furlongs per fortnight"" has also served frequently in classroom examples of unit conversion and dimensional analysis. One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 seconds. This has become a joke in computer science because in the VMS operating system, the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable, which holds the time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus, is set in microfortnights. This is because the computer uses a loop instead of the internal clock"
"Quarterland A Quarterland or Ceathramh (Scottish Gaelic) was a Scottish land measurement. It was used mainly in the west and north. It was supposed to be equivalent to eight fourpennylands, roughly equivalent to a quarter of a markland. However, in Islay, a quarterland was equivalent to a quarter of an ounceland. Half of a quarterland would be an ""ochdamh""(ie.one-eighth), and in Islay a quarter of a quarterland a ""leothras""(ie.one-sixteenth). The name appears in many Scottish placenames, notably Kirriemuir. ""Ceathramh"" was also used in Gàidhlig for a bushel and a firlot (or four pecks), as was ""Feòirling"", the term used for"
"am and 100 am). To help compare different orders of magnitude this section lists lengths between 10 m and 10 m (100 am and 1 fm). The femtometre (symbol fm) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to 10 metres. In particle physics, this unit is more commonly called a fermi, also with abbreviation ""fm"". To help compare different orders of magnitude this section lists lengths between 10 metres and 10 metres (1 femtometre (fm) and 10 fm). To help compare different orders of magnitude this section lists lengths between 10 m and 10 m (10 fm"
"(~296 mm) was divided into both 12 ""unciae"" (inches) (~24.7 mm) and 16 digits (~18.5 mm). The Romans also introduced the ""mille passus"" (1000 paces) or double steps, the pace being equal to five Roman feet (~1480 mm). The Roman mile of 5000 feet (1480 m) was introduced into England during the occupation. Queen Elizabeth I (reigned from 1558 to 1603) changed, by statute, the mile to 5280 feet (~1609 m) or 8 furlongs, a furlong being 40 rod (unit)s (~201 m) of 5.5 yards (~5.03 m) each. The introduction of the yard (0.9144 m) as a unit of length"
"the furlong and the rood appear to be units related to ploughing procedures. Of particular interest was the rood which was 15 North German feet in length, the North German foot being equivalent to 335 mm (13.2 inches). Craftsmen, on the other hand used a shorter Roman foot. Standardization of weights and measures was a recurring issue for monarchs. In 965 AD, King Edgar decreed ""that only one weight and one measure should pass throughout the King's dominion"". In 1197 Richard I decreed that the measures of corn and pulse, and of wine and ale should be the same throughout"
"Standard Yard; and that One third Part of the said Standard Yard shall be a Foot, and the Twelfth Part of such Foot shall be an Inch; and that the Pole or Perch in Length shall contain Five such Yards and a Half, the Furlong Two hundred and twenty such Yards, and the Mile One thousand seven hundred and sixty such Yards. In 1834, the primary Imperial yard standard was partially destroyed in a fire known as the Burning of Parliament. In 1838, a commission was formed to reconstruct the lost standards, including the troy pound, which had also been"
"different lengths. Based on data from the following: In England, the rod is first defined in law by the Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date from the late 13th to early 14th centuries. The length of the ""chain"" was standardized in 1620 by Edmund Gunter at exactly four rods. Fields were measured in ""acres"", which were one chain (four rods) by one furlong (in the United Kingdom, ten chains). Bars of metal one rod long were used as standards of length when surveying land. The rod was still in use as a common unit"
"to 3.546 m and one fermila was equal to 56.7383 km, as they were defined by their metric equivalents. Some other units are given below: 1 ferþumlungur = 1/5184 ferfaðmur 1 ferfet = 1/36 ferfaðmur 1 feralin = 1/9 ferfaðmur 1 túndagslátta = 900 ferfaðmar 1 engjateigur = 1600 ferfaðmar A number of units were used to measure capacity. One pottur (plural. pottar) was equal to 1/32 fet, and was equal to 0.9661 l as it was defined by its metric equivalent. Some other units are given below: 1 kornskeppa = 18 pottar 1 anker = 39 pottar 1 almenn"
"Half farthing The British half farthing (d) coin, usually simply known as a half farthing, was a unit of currency equaling of a pound sterling, or one eighth of a penny. It was minted in copper for use in Ceylon, but in 1842 they were declared legal tender in the United Kingdom. Two different obverses were used. Like all British coinage, it bore the portrait of the monarch on the obverse. Before Decimal Day in 1971 there were two hundred and forty pence in one pound sterling. There were four farthings in a penny. Twelve pence made a shilling, and"