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The square root of a square meter
take a meter stick, now cut it in half. glue it back together. a meter is probably a little bit longer than this since you lost some material cutting.
about 33 AU’s
3 1/3 Subway sandwiches
It’s about as close as I’m comfortable standing to a stranger
The distance light travels when it goes one meter.
About twice as long as half of its length
It’s more than less than a meter but less than more than a meter.
One-half a Darth Vader.
Same length as a string.
Around 2 cats long
About 2 bushels and a peck.
Take one liter of water at “room temperature” an aprox of 20 Celcuis degrees at one atmosfere pressure. Take a straight transparent tube of one centimeter inner thickness. Put the water in without spilling.
Measue…
A meter…
That’s wrong. The tube has a cross section of 0.25π cm² so your tube will be filled ~1,2732m high.
Also as others have stated, if you can measure 1cm you already have a definition of a Meter.
Accidentally measured diagonally, now what
you will have measured 1.00005 meters (sqrt(1+0.01²)), assuming your eyes are the best in the world.
how am I supposed to measure the inner thickness?
About 4 stacked house cats, or a bit longer than a 3-year-old.
5.618 Bananas
