rod
Lengthexact by definition
A rod is exactly 16.5 feet, 5.0292 metres, a quarter of a chain. American land descriptions and older fencing and drainage specifications are written in rods, and forty rods make a furlong.
| 1 | 5.0292 |
Where the unit came from
Also called a pole or a perch, all three names for the same length. One much-repeated derivation has it standardised as the total length of the left feet of the first sixteen men out of church on a Sunday morning, which at least explains why it is not a round number of feet.
One rod in every length unit
| 3.11164e+35 | Planck length (lP) | |
| 5.02920e+15 | femtometer (fm) | |
| 5,029,200,000,000 | picometer (pm) | |
| 95,038,100,000 | bohr radius (a0) | |
| 50,292,000,000 | angstrom (Å) | |
| 5,029,200,000 | nanometer (nm) | |
| 5,029,200 | micrometer (μm) | |
| 198,000 | thou (thou) | |
| 14,256 | point (pt) | |
| 5,029.2 | millimeter (mm) | |
| 1,188 | pica (pc) | |
| 502.92 | centimeter (cm) | |
| 198 | inch (in) | |
| 50.292 | decimeter (dm) | |
| 49.5 | hand (hh) | |
| 25 | link (li) | |
| 16.5 | foot (ft) | |
| 16.5 | US survey foot (ftUS) | |
| 5.5 | yard (yd) | |
| 5.0292 | meter (m) | |
| 2.75 | fathom (ftm) | |
| 1 | rod (rd)this unit | |
| 0.25 | chain (ch) | |
| 0.0271555 | cable length (cb) | |
| 0.025 | furlong (fur) | |
| 0.0050292 | kilometer (km) | |
| 0.003125 | mile (mi) | |
| 0.00271555 | nautical mile (nmi) | |
| 0.00104167 | league (lea) | |
| 0.0000050292 | megameter (Mm) | |
| 7.89389e-07 | Earth radius (REarth) | |
| 1.67756e-08 | light-second (ls) | |
| 1.30833e-08 | lunar distance (LD) | |
| 7.22898e-09 | solar radius (Rsun) | |
| 2.79593e-10 | light-minute (lmin) | |
| 3.36181e-11 | astronomical unit (AU) | |
| 5.31587e-16 | light-year (ly) | |
| 1.62985e-16 | parsec (pc) | |
| 1.62985e-19 | kiloparsec (kpc) | |
| 1.62985e-22 | megaparsec (Mpc) | |
| 1.62985e-25 | gigaparsec (Gpc) |
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