| Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps by Kees Boeke (1957) |
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| Powers of ten: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 <> 1 0 -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13 |
 
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The first picture, from which we start, is as we said already one of a child sitting
in front of the school, with a cat on her lap. It is drawn on a scale of 1 to 10.
This means that a centimeter on the drawing is in reality 10 centimeters. A
centimeter (abbreviated "cm.") is the hundredth part of a meter, which corresponds
to the yard as a unit of length. To be precise, a meter is 3.37 inches
longer than 1 yard. One centimeter is therefore nearly 0.4 inch. In both length
and height, the picture measures 15 centimeters, or nearly 6 inches. An arrow
shows the direction of north.
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