A global rise in sea level of one metre, for example, would almost completely inundate the coastal areas of Bangladesh.
Drill strings, the interlocking sections of pipe that are used in offshore drilling, are heavy: the pipe used by Transocean, an offshore-drilling company, weighs over 30kg per metre, for example.
Napoleon ultimately took a retrograde step in 1812 when he passed legislation to introduce the mesures usuelles (traditional units of measurement) for retail trade —a system of measure that resembled the pre-revolutionary units but were based on the kilogram and the metre; for example the livre metrique (metric pound) was 500 g instead of 489.5 g the value of the livre du roi (the king's pound).
BMI is calculated by dividing your weight in kilograms by your height in metres squared: for example, 80 kg divided by (1.75m x 1.75m).
If the descending air originated at a height of 10,000 metres (33,000 feet), for example, it might reach the ground with a horizontal velocity much higher than the wind at the ground.
Many extrinsic properties, on the other hand, cannot be possessed by lonely objects – no lonely object is six metres from a rhododendron, for example.
However, they could not answer these questions because most were subsistence farmers who rarely measure their land, or they measure it in an unconventional manner (for example, a metric metre equals about 14 metres among these farmers).
A family of four with two paying children (those under one metre high go free), for example, visiting Paultons Park and Peppa Pig World on 5 and 6 August, would normally pay £90 a day for family tickets booked in advance - a total of £180 just for entry.
A basic inventory of the hidden archive gives a clue to its enormousness: batches of files are catalogued according to the length of shelf space they occupy, with six metres and two centimetres dedicated to files about Rhodesia, for example, and four metres and 57 centimetres holding files about Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, the KGB spies who operated inside the Foreign Office and MI6.
Filming within 1.2 metres of a human subject, for example, is practically impossible to do in a way that doesn't cause problems in the editing room, when a process known as "stitching" connects images from various cameras used.
