A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi
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United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories since being standardized and adopted in 1832. The United States customary system developed from English units that ...
(non- SI non-metric
Metric or metrical may refer to:
Measuring
* Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system of measurement
* An adjective indicating relation to measurement in general, or a noun describing a specific type of measurement
Mathematics
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) unit of volume
Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space. It is often quantified numerically using SI derived units (such as the cubic metre and litre) or by various imperial or US customary units (such as the gallon, quart, cubic inch) ...
, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube
A cube or regular hexahedron is a three-dimensional space, three-dimensional solid object in geometry, which is bounded by six congruent square (geometry), square faces, a type of polyhedron. It has twelve congruent edges and eight vertices. It i ...
with sides of length, giving a volume of .
Conversions
See also
* Square mile
The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi2)Rowlett, Russ (September 1, 2004) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 22, 2012. is an imperial and US unit of measure for area. One square mile is equa ...
* Orders of magnitude
In a ratio scale based on powers of ten, the order of magnitude is a measure of the nearness of two figures. Two numbers are "within an order of magnitude" of each other if their ratio is between 1/10 and 10. In other words, the two numbers are wi ...
for a comparison with other volumes
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* Cube (arithmetic)
In arithmetic and algebra, the cube of a number is its third exponentiation, power, that is, the result of multiplying three instances of together.
The cube of a number is denoted , using a superscript 3, for example . The cube Mathematical ...
** Cube root
In mathematics, a cube root of a number is a number that has the given number as its third power; that is y^3=x. The number of cube roots of a number depends on the number system that is considered.
Every real number has exactly one real cub ...
** Cubic equation
In algebra, a cubic equation in one variable is an equation of the form
ax^3+bx^2+cx+d=0
in which is not zero.
The solutions of this equation are called roots of the cubic function defined by the left-hand side of the equation. If all of th ...
** Cubic function
In mathematics, a cubic function is a function of the form f(x)=ax^3+bx^2+cx+d, that is, a polynomial function of degree three. In many texts, the ''coefficients'' , , , and are supposed to be real numbers, and the function is considered as ...
References
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Units of volume
Imperial units
Customary units of measurement in the United States