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To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10 m and 100 m.

Distances shorter than 1 dam

[edit] Conversions

1 dam is equal to:

• 10 metres
• 100 decimetres
• 1,000 centimetres
• 10,000 millimetres
• 32.8 feet
• side of square with area 100 m²

[edit] Wavelengths

• 1.0 dam — wavelength of the highest shortwave radio frequency, 30 MHz
• 10 dam — wavelength of the lowest shortwave radio frequency, 3 MHz

[edit] Sports

• 1.1 dam — approximate width of a doubles tennis court
• 1.8 dam — distance between the pitcher's rubber and home plate on a baseball field
• 2.0 dam — length of cricket pitch (22 yards)
• 7.0 dam — width of soccer field
• 9.1 dam — length of American football field (100 yards, measured between the goal lines)

[edit] Human-built structures

• 2.3 dam — height of the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.
• 2.9 dam — height of the lighthouse at Savudrija, Slovenia.
• 3.4 dam — height of the Split Point Lighthouse in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia.
• 4.0 dam — average depth beneath the seabed of the Channel tunnel
• 5.5 dam — height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
• 6.0 dam — height of Pyramid of Djoser
• 6.4 dam — wingspan of a Boeing 747-400
• 7.0 dam — length of the Bayeux Tapestry

[edit] Nature

• 1.0 dam — average length of human digestive tract
• 1.2 dam — length of a whale shark, largest living fish
• 1.2 dam — wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur
• 1.3 dam — length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates
• 1.5 dam — approximate distance the tropical circles of latitude are moving towards the equator and the polar circles are moving towards the poles each year due to a natural, gradual decrease in the Earth's axial tilt
• 1.8 dam — height of a Sauroposeidon, the tallest known dinosaur
• 2.0 dam — length of a Leedsichthys, the largest known fish ever lived
• 2.1 dam — height of High Force waterfall in England
• 3.3 dam — length of a blue whale, the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass
• 3.5 dam — length of a Supersaurus, the longest known dinosaur and longest vertebrate

[edit] Astronomical

• 3.0 dam — diameter of 1998 KY₂₆, a rapidly spinning meteoroid

Distances longer than 1 hm

[edit] See also

• Orders of magnitude (length)
• Decametre