Span

Revision as of 19:35, 4 August 2019 by Alahmnat (talk | contribs) (More details on how a span’s length is calculated, again thanks to Rium at Mysterium.)

A span is a basic D'ni unit of linear measurement. If you create a pendulum in the D'ni Cavern with a period of 5 [prorahn], twice the length of that pendulum is 5 spans.

Conversions

One span is equal to:

  • 15.8 feet
  • 4.82 meters

Notes

The [Book of Ti'ana] contains rough estimates for the length of a span, but they are inconsistent and overall inaccurate.

The [KI] in [Uru] uses a distance of 16 feet for one span because it is a simple multiple of Plasma’s underlying foot-based measurement system.