Quite often in life and daily activity we should determine length of any objects or objects. It is good when near at hand there is a suitable measuring tool. And how to be when it is necessary to determine quickly the sizes, say, of a desk?
It is required to you
- hand palm, matchbox, squared paper
Instruction
1. If you plan shift in the apartment and want to check whether pieces of furniture on the new place will go in, then, certainly, it is better to use a meter ruler or a roulette. Having such tool, everyone will cope with a measuring task, it will not make special work.
2. If there is no roulette near at hand, you can use make-shifts, and, in literal sense of this word. For this purpose use distance between moved most apart hand finger-tips.
3. Naturally, demands to learn such method previously what this distance in centimeters. Having put once a palm to a ruler, you will be able to remember what distance between tips of big and average fingers. It will be necessary only to put such measure to the measured subject the necessary number of times, and length of a cover of a table will stop being for you a secret.
4. It is possible to use for determination of length and an ordinary matchbox. Its standard length equals 50 mm, width – 35 mm, thickness – 15 mm.
5. How to be if you need to measure length of the curve drawn on paper? Use a paper strip for measurement, it is desirable in a section. Apply a strip to the line an edge, repeating its bends. Make a mark in a strip. Now you will need to count number of sections, or by means of a usual ruler to determine length of the paper strip which served as a measure.
6. Length of the passable way on the area it is convenient to define steam of steps by means of calculation. But before you need to learn the average size of the step when walking by usual speed. At the person of average height length of a step can be 75-80 cm, respectively, couple of steps will make about a half a meter. Knowing this size, count when walking number of couples of steps from one point to another and increase by length of couples steps. You receive the approximate passable distance.