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dsalzman 11 hours ago

Whats the units?

MikeCoats 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Centimetres.

Their 13 cm high plant specimen had a 456 cm deep root.

mock-possum 9 hours ago | parent [-]

So like 15 feet

	▲	garbagewoman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Probably, since cm are almost as useless as the grand old imperial system

zyberzero 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It says cm, so centimeters (1/100 meter) - slightly less than 0.4 inches

tejtm 7 hours ago | parent [-]

decimal place issues... I hope.

there are ten mm in a cm

456cm == 4560mm

there are 24.5 mm per inch (it is the law).

4550mm / 25.4 = 179.527 inches

or about 14.9 feet

which is about 5 yards

which is 20% of a 'murican football field if that helps

jacobolus 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The above comment was pointing out that each 1 centimeter is slightly less than 0.4 inches. If you want to be more precise, each centimeter is about 0.3937 inches.

	▲	tejtm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Your correction to my perception of what you intended 0.4 inches to represent is accepted.

margittai 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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rkomorn 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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