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A hand is a unit of length used to measure the height of horses and ponies. One hand is four inches, and a value of '12.3 hands' represents 12 hands + 3 inches (51 inches). This template converts hands into the equivalent heights in inches and centimetres.
Note: with hands, any fractional part (numbers and vulgar fractions after the period) are inches, not a decimal fraction of a hand. Hence '14.2 hands' means 14 hands, 2 inches, not 14+2⁄10 hands.