Measure a foot with a piece of paper

Today's quick blog entry is a little bit of Trigonometry and a little bit of paper voodoo.

Someone pointed me to this website that showed how to almost exactly measure a foot (12.02") with a simple 8 1/2 by 11 piece of paper. Since I have reams of paper laying around all the time, and can never find my nice rulers when I need them, its nice to know there is a quick and easy workaround in case I am short on time.

And in case you don't need to measure a foot, or if you don't have 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper handy, every dollar in your wallet is exactly 6" long. Folded in half they are exactly 3" long. I've been finding that tip very handy to make quick measurements all the time!

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