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The toise (fathom) was defined as exactly two metres and was as before divided into 6 pieds (or "feet") or 72 pouces (inches). The pouce was divided into 12 lignes (or "lines"). The pied and pouce, at precisely 333. 3 mm and 27. 7 mm, were about 2.6% larger than the previous Parisian measures and 9% larger than their English counterparts.
La loi du 4 juillet 1837 (the law of 4 July 1837) of the July Monarchy effectively revoked the use of mesures usuelles by reaffirming the laws of measurement of 1795 and 1799 to be used from 1 May 1840. [1] However, many units of measure, such as the livre, remained in colloquial use for many years and the livre still does to some extent.
[3] [4] The term for telescopes persisted even in the 20th century, with a telescope listed in the 1909 Sears Roebuck catalog of having 25 lignes diameter aperture, or about 56 mm (5.6 cm). [5] The measurement SPI (Stitches per inch) for leather pricking irons and stitch marking wheels also commonly uses the Paris inch instead of the Imperial inch.
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~3.799 m 2 ~40.889 sq ft, or ~4.543 sq yd The French square fathom Paris: perche d'arpent carrée: 484 ~51.07 m 2 ~61.08 sq yd This was the main square perch in old French surveying. It is a square 22 pieds du roi on each side. vergée: 12 100 ~1277 m 2 ~1527 sq yd A square 5 perches on each side, or one quarter of an acre. acre, or arpent ...
South Africa was building a defendable total against Sri Lanka as it reached 191-3 in its second innings and a lead of 221 runs on day three Saturday of the second test. Aiden Markram's 55 moved ...