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Is 179 square miles as big as a Nailhead?

It's about 6,000,000,000,000 times as big as a Nailhead
The size of a Nailhead is about 0.000000000030020 square miles.
(for 11-gauge wire nai)
An 11-gauge nailhead measures 0.000000000030020 square miles. Nails have been used since ancient times; archaeologists have discovered Ancient Egyptian nails that are over 5,000 years old.
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