A yard was defined by Henry I of England as the distance from his nose to the tip of his outstretched thumb. A foot was one third of a yard.
One cubic foot, the volume of a cube that is one foot long, one foot high and one foot wide.
If you have a board that is 1 by 12 inches that is 10 foot long you will have 10 inches of board feet. This a math problem.
My foot
If your foot is twelve inches long then yes it is. The word foot was used to establish the measurement "a foot" because it is the approximate size of a mans foot.
A half of one foot is six inches long.
There are 12 inches in 1 foot.
One cubic foot, the volume of a cube that is one foot long, one foot high and one foot wide.
A foot is 12 inches or about 30.5 centimetres
58 in. is what my math teacher told me so that is probably right
It means for each foot.
1 foot equals 30.48cm, but if you do the math, there are 0.03281 'foot' in one centimeter.
12 inches are in 1 foot. Do the math.
My foot is actually about 1 foot long!
Well, honey, a foot and a half is 18 inches long. So, that rope would be 18 inches. Math doesn't have to be complicated, darling.
If you have a board that is 1 by 12 inches that is 10 foot long you will have 10 inches of board feet. This a math problem.
My foot
A long time ago a king wanted to see how long his foot was. His foot was exactly 12 feet long so he called that a foot.