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The Measure of Things Press Mentions

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“Use [The Measure of Things] to Visualize Large Numbers or Weird Units... Type your weird quantity into The Measure of Things, and you’ll get a list of comparative and relative numbers measured in units you can conceptualize... You can also use The Measure of Things to understand unfamiliar units, like fathoms and shakes and stones, in more standard terms...”

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“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”

“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”

“Just for the sake of comparison...[t]he poor giraffe would be about 6 feet under snow.”

“Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...”

“...Plaza de España, a semicircular, architectural extravaganza about the size of 10 American football fields...”

“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”

“...a boat that’s nearly as long as the Arc de Triomphe is tall and features a Jacuzzi, gym and movie theater.”

“They estimate the stock of empty houses nationwide at about 20 billion square feet, about two-and-a-half times the area of New York City.”

“For reference, that's about a little more than how much a typical hamster weighs.”

“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”

“To put that into some kind of perspective, it is the weight equivalent to 340 Giza pyramids, 80,000 Statues of Liberty or 12 million blue whales.”

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