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Is 37,070,000 hands as long as a Grain of Sand?

It's about 3,000,000,000 times as long as a Grain of Sand
The length of a Grain of Sand is about 0.0123 hands.
(medium grain)
Composed mainly of quartz, mica, feldspar, or magnetite, a grain of sand measures an average of 0.0123 hands. In 2007, a team of seven in Myrtle Beach created the world's tallest sandcastle, which measured 149 hands in height.
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