to this:
for tankers: one seka is roughly equal to thirty centimeters. Four swords ― the length of the clamorous and other two-handed swords.

This is Uspensky. It was a big troll. In the Three Hills, for example, he had a character with a luxurious reflection in a loop (if anyone is not in the topic, go to the loop and present it in a loop). Uspensky can be re-read for years and decades and still not understand all his jokes.

By the way, thank you for the "four zaka" – I didn’t know, for example. Another joke is caught, Mikhail Glebovich, let’s not joke to you in that world!