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by hnuser123456 638 days ago
That would be 2.54 times 1/100th of the distance light travels in a vacuum during 1/299,792,458 of the time it takes for 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of a cesium-133 atom, if you prefer.
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Wrong!

While there is a 1 inch measure in common use that is as you described, the subject here is EMT. There is no dimension in EMT that is 1 inch by the system you describe. The diameter is close to 1 inch, but it is noticeably different to the naked eye, and for all useful purposes different enough that anything actually 1 inch in diameter is not compatible.