measurements
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How To Measure Almost Anything Using Your Phone
Your phone can do it all. It’s a portable music player, diary, digital camera, communication device, calculator, and just about everything else. But you might not have considered that it can also replace your measuring tape. With the right sensors on board and the right apps installed, you can measure more data with your phone…
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The Weird Maths Behind Paper Sizes
Despite all the talk of the paperless office, for some reason most of us still seem to drown under piles of dead tree. But while we’re all intimately familiar with the stuff, understanding where those weird sizing conventions came from never seems to get any easier.
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This Print Makes Units Of Measure Beautiful
Measurements are something you deal with on a daily basis whether you think about it or not. Either way, ACRE’s Units of Measurement print will put these units in the forefront of your mind in a rather lovely manner.
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The Kilogram Is Losing Weight And That Might Screw The Metric System
We’ve long known that there were some issues with France’s ‘Le Grand K’, the international prototype for what a kilogram really is. Made in 1879 from platinum and iridium alloy, it is the perfect standard for what a kilogram weighs. The problem is it’s losing weight.