Length of a credit card

Length of a credit card (85.6 mm)

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If Length of a credit card (85.6 mm) was a standard unit ...

  • Length of the USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier (337 m)...more would be 4000 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona (170 m)...more would be 2000 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of the Washington Monument in Washington, DC (169 m)...more would be 2000 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of the Flatiron Building in New York (87 m)...more would be 1000 x Length of a credit card
  • Length overall of the Cutty Sark sailing ship (85.4 m)...more would be 1000 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of the Antares 230 launch rocket (42.5 m)...more would be 500 x Length of a credit card
  • Initial height of the world's first skyscraper ? the Home Insurance Building (42 m)...more would be 500 x Length of a credit card
  • Length of the Millennium Falcon spaceship in the Star Wars movies (34.8 m)...more would be 400 x Length of a credit card
  • Length of a Nile crocodile (4.2 m)...more would be 50 x Length of a credit card
  • Length overall of a `Laser` racing dinghy (4.2 m)...more would be 50 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of an African elephant (4.2 m)...more would be 50 x Length of a credit card
  • Height of a standard washing machine (850 mm)...more would be 10 x Length of a credit card

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