Width of a Penguin paperback book

Width of a Penguin paperback book (111 mm)

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Width of a Penguin paperback book (111 mm)

  • is 1/5000 of Height of the CN Tower in Toronto (553 m)...more
  • is 1/2000 of Height of the Hoover dam wall (221.4 m)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Height of St Paul's Cathedral in London (111 m)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Length of the Saturn V Apollo Program launch rocket (110.6 m)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Length of an American Football field (110 m)...more
  • is 1/250 of Length of a basketball court (28 m)...more
  • is 1/250 of Distance between bases of a baseball diamond (27.43 m)...more
  • is 1/200 of Height of an All-Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) in Star Wars movies (22.5 m)...more
  • is 1/100 of Length of a London bus (11.23 m)...more
  • is 1/100 of Penalty distance in (soccer) football (10.97 m)...more
  • is 1/40 of Length overall of a `Finn` racing dinghy (4.5 m)...more
  • is 1/40 of Length of a Jaguar E-type coupe (4.43 m)...more
  • is 1/20 of Height of Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies (2.21 m)...more
  • is 1/10 of Height of the R2-D2 droid in the Star Wars movies (1.09 m)...more

If this was a standard unit ...

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

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