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Quick Reference

1 Shaftment = 35.8600 Em

1 Em = 0.027886 Shaftment

Shaftment to Em Conversion Formula

To convert Shaftment to Em, multiply by 35.8600.

Em = Shaftment × 35.8600

Shaftment = Em × 0.027886

To convert Em back to Shaftment, divide by 35.8600 (or multiply by 0.027886).

About These Units

About Shaftment

A shaftment, when used as a unit of length, is usually six inches or two palms, i.e. 15.24 cm (for the international inch). It is thought to be the distance from the tip of the outstretched thumb to the other side of the palm.In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as do others based on the human arm: digit (1/8 shaftment), finger (7/48 shaftment), palm (½ shaftment) hand (2/3 shaftment), span (1½ shaftments), cubit (3 shaftments) and ell (7½ shaftments).

About Em

The em is a printers unit of relative distance. One em is the height of the type size (in points) being used. If 12 point type is being set, then one em is 12 points, and so on.

Shaftment to Em Conversion Table

Shaftment	Em	Em	Shaftment
0.1	3.5860	0.1	2.789e-3
0.5	17.9300	0.5	0.013943
1	35.8600	1	0.027886
2	71.7199	2	0.055773
5	179.2998	5	0.139431
10	358.5996	10	0.278863
20	717.1991	20	0.557725
25	896.4989	25	0.697156
50	1793.00	50	1.3943
100	3586.00	100	2.7886
250	8964.99	250	6.9716
500	17929.98	500	13.9431
1000	35859.96	1000	27.8863

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