Inches
Since 1959, the inch has been defined and internationally accepted as being equivalent to 25.4mm (millimetres).
Parsecs
The parsec is a unit of length equivalent to around 20 trillion (20,000,000,000,000) miles, 31 trillion kilometres, or 206,264 times the distance from the earth to the sun.
A parsec is also equivalent to approximately 3.26 light years (the journey distance if you travelled at the speed of light for three years and three months).
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