1 metre
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Click on the thumbnail image to jump to the desired Human-scale order of length magnitude article: top-left is 1E-6 m, lower-right is 1E5 m.
Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man within a square of side 1.83 metres and a circle about 1.2 metres in radius
To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between one metre and ten metres. 1 metre is 1,650,763.73 times the distance traveled by ultraviolet radiations emitted by Krypton-86.
Conversions
1 metre is:
- 10 decimetres
- 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
Human-defined scales and structures
- approximate height of the top part of a doorknob on a door
- 1.435 m — Standard gauge of railway track used by about 60% of railways in the world = 4' 8½"
- 2.77–3.44 m — wavelength of the broadcast radio FM band 87–108 MHz
- 3.05 m — The length of an old Mini
- 8.38 m — The length of a London Bus (Routemaster)
Sports
- 3.05 m — (10 feet) height of the basket in basketball
- 2.44 m — height of an association football goal[1]
- 2.45 m — highest jump by a human being (Javier Sotomayor)[2]
- 8.95 m — longest jump by a human being (Mike Powell)[3]
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)).
- 1.75 m — (5 feet 9 inches) - height of average US male human as of 2002 (source: US CDC as per female above)
- 2.72 m — (8 feet 11 inches) - tallest known human being (Robert Wadlow)[4]
- 3.63 m — the record wingspan for living birds (a Wandering Albatross)
- 5.20 m — height of a giraffe[5]
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Laws of the Game
- ↑ IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Statistics - Top Lists, archived from the original on 2008-01-16
- ↑ IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Past Results
- ↑ "Tallest Man". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ↑ Dagg, A. I. (1971), Mammalian Species 5 (Giraffa camelopardalis ed.), pp. 1–8
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