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  2. Units of textile measurement - Wikipedia

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    One momme = 4.340 g/m 2; 8 mommes is approximately 1 ounce per square yard or 35 g/m 2. The momme is based on the standard width of silk of 45 inches (1.1 m) wide (though silk is regularly produced in 55-inch (1.4 m) widths and uncommonly in larger widths). The usual range of momme weight for different weaves of silk are: Habutai—5 to 16 mm ...

  3. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  4. Power of 10 - Wikipedia

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    Power of 10. Visualisation of powers of 10 from one to 1 trillion. A power of 10 is any of the integer powers of the number ten; in other words, ten multiplied by itself a certain number of times (when the power is a positive integer). By definition, the number one is a power (the zeroth power) of ten. The first few non-negative powers of ten are:

  5. The son of Asia’s richest man is set to marry in one ... - AOL

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    The Ambani family owns, among other assets, a 27-story private apartment building worth $1 billion in Mumbai. It has three helipads, a 160-car garage and a private movie theater.

  6. What happens if you open too many checking accounts? - AOL

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    You could hurt your banking history. Overdrafts, bounced checks or negative balances could hurt your bank account history. ChexSystems maintains records of problems with bank accounts. These ...

  7. Middlemen have outsized influence on US drug prices, FTC says

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    PBM shares slipped upon the report's release, with CVS down 1%, Humana falling 1.2%, and UnitedHealth down marginally. The report included some closely guarded information about how companies ...

  8. Ancient Egyptian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian units of length are attested from the Early Dynastic Period.Although it dates to the 5th dynasty, the Palermo stone recorded the level of the Nile River during the reign of the Early Dynastic pharaoh Djer, when the height of the Nile was recorded as 6 cubits and 1 palm [1] (about 3.217 m or 10 ft 6.7 in).

  9. Fathom - Wikipedia

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    One fathom is equal to: 1.8288 metres exactly (Official international definition of the fathom) [ 10] 1.828804 m (Obsolete measurement of the fathom based on the US survey foot, only for use of historical and legacy applications) [ 11] 2 yards (1 yard is exactly 1⁄2 fathom) 6 feet (1 foot is exactly 1⁄6 fathom) 18 hands. 72 inches.