Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Some orders of magnitude, as they apply to my place in the world:

The height of my body ~102 inches
The width of my body ~ 101 inches
The depth of my body ~ 101 inches

The height, width and depth of my house ~ 102 inches
The width and depth of the lot my house sits on ~ 103 inches

The space between framing members in my house (studs, joists, rafters) ~ 101 inches
The wall thickness of my house ~ 100 inches
The standard of precision used to frame my house ~ 10-1 inches
The standard of precision in the finish carpentry in my house ~ 10-2 inches

The length of my block ~ 104 inches
The diameter of my town ~ 105 inches
The dimensions of my county ~ 106 inches
The dimensions of my state ~ 107 inches
The dimensions of my nation ~ 108 inches
The circumference of the earth ~ 109 inches

1 Comments:

Blogger degreesofgray said...

Hmm.

9:50 AM  

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