FM 12-01 Chapter 12 · Journalistic units

Journalistic units

A quantity in newspaper units: football pitches, elephants, Rundetårne, floppy disks. Every reference sourced.

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Amount

Unit if none typed

Accepts 3.5 km · 1,474,560 B · 90 min · 2 t TNT · 25 mph · 3,5 km

References

Read as 3.5 km = 3.5 km Length

Headlines

1: That is as long as 10.5 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
2: That is as long as 10.6 Eiffel Towers.
3: That is as long as 13 Titanics.

Compared with 21 references

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier: 10.5 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers Length overall, 1,092 ft. Value 332.8 m. en.wikipedia.org
Eiffel Tower, height: 10.6 Eiffel Towers Total height including antennas (2022). Value 330 m. en.wikipedia.org
RMS Titanic: 13 Titanics Length overall, 882 ft 9 in (1912). Value 269.1 m. en.wikipedia.org
Great Belt East Bridge: 0.52 of the Great Belt East Bridge Total length of the East Bridge, the suspension bridge between Zealand and Sprogø (1998). Value 6.79 km. en.wikipedia.org
Football pitch, length: 33.3 football pitches UEFA category 3 and 4 stadiums: field of play 105 × 68 m. The Laws of the Game allow 100 to 110 m for internationals. Value 105 m. documents.uefa.com
IC3 trainset (DSB class MF): 59.5 IC3 trainsets Length of one three-car IC3 unit. Value 58.8 m. en.wikipedia.org
Olympic pool, length: 70 Olympic pool lengths Length of a 50 m competition pool (World Aquatics). Value 50 m. en.wikipedia.org
Rundetårn (Round Tower), Copenhagen: 101 Round Towers Height of the viewing platform above street level. Value 34.8 m. en.wikipedia.org
Blue whale, longest measured: 117 blue whales Maximum confirmed length. Typical adults are shorter, around 24 to 27 m. Value 29.9 m. en.wikipedia.org
London double-decker bus (New Routemaster): 312 London double-decker buses Overall length of the New Routemaster. Value 11.23 m. en.wikipedia.org
The Little Mermaid statue, height: 2,800 Little Mermaid statues Height of the bronze figure, not including the rock. Value 1.25 m. en.wikipedia.org
Øresund Bridge: 0.45 of the Øresund Bridge The cable-stayed bridge only, without the Peberholm island and Drogden tunnel (2000). Value 7.845 km. simple.wikipedia.org
Mount Everest, height: 0.4 of the height of Mount Everest Snow height above sea level, joint Nepal and China survey announced December 2020 (2020). Value 8.849 km. thehimalayantimes.com
Great Belt Fixed Link, whole crossing: ≈ 0.19 of the Great Belt Fixed Link Total length Zealand to Funen, rounded to whole kilometres (1998). Value ≈ 18 km. en.wikipedia.org
Marathon: 0.083 of a marathon Official distance 42.195 km, fixed in 1921. Value 42.2 km. boston.com
LEGO brick, stacking height: 364,583 LEGO bricks Height of one standard brick without the stud, 9.6 mm, so stacked bricks add 9.6 mm each. Value 9.6 mm. bartneck.de
Length of Denmark, Grenen to Gedser Odde: ≈ 0.0096 of the length of Denmark Straight line between the northern tip (Grenen, Skagen) and southern tip (Gedser Odde), computed from coordinates. Value ≈ 363 km. en.wikipedia.org
Earth, equatorial circumference: 1/11,450 of a trip around the Equator 2π × equatorial radius 6,378.137 km (NASA Earth fact sheet). Value 40,075 km. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Earth to Moon, average distance: 1/109,829 of the way to the Moon Semi-major axis of the Moon orbit, centre to centre. Varies 363,000 to 406,000 km. Value 384,400 km. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov
Earth to Sun (astronomical unit): 1/42.7 million of the way to the Sun Exact by definition, IAU 2012 resolution B2. Value 1 au. iauarchive.eso.org
Light-year: 1/2.7 trillion of a light-year Exact by IAU convention: speed of light × Julian year. Value 1 ly. en.wikipedia.org

Reverse

How many

Of what

100 football pitches = 10.5 km

cm: 1,050,000
m: 10,500
km: 10.5
ft: 34,449
mi: 6.524

For fun and orientation. Every number has a source, linked next to it; approximations are marked ≈. Rows with a ratio between 0.5 and 10,000 come first, the rest are greyed. Long lists of decimals are rounded the way a newspaper would. Time since the Moon landing is counted live.